Sand By For Mars!

We did go to the beach again Sunday, and while it began with cloudy weather and a light shower, it cleared later and warmed to a fine beach day. Tim, Gabe and I were sand sculpting, of course. Tim wanted to try his spiral pyramid again, but smaller, while I decided to carve a spaceship. Not a realistic one, but the kind seen on science fiction magazines in the 1950s. I began with a tall tower created with the pancake method, stacks of very wet sand pancakes, then started carving it away.

My...