This is the first photo on the blog with people in it…so I can no longer say I don’t photograph people!  This was just too cute to pass up — both the kids and their creation.  Another cool, grayish day on the beach with the sun determined to come out soon.

I’ve noticed a lot of moats as part of the sand-castle paradigm.  I wonder if that is a universal…there are possibly a few anthropology studies lurking within a tour of beaches world-wide, studying variation and similarity in sand castles!

Moats: protection, separation, exclusivity.  Not exactly friendly or welcoming.  It would be interesting to correlate the sand castle design with the local illustrations of fairy tales and fables.  Which, now that I think of it, have probably been mostly written by men.  Kingdom, conquest, territory.  Sigh.  Even Frost said, “Good fences make good neighbors.”