Walking along the estuary-side path on an ebb-tide, I kept an ear tuned for our "wet-footed god of the horizons", scanned with my glass the shimmer around margins of emerging sand-banks for the bird whose curved-beak silhouette is as distinctive as its voice.
We then wade into the creek, do push-ups in the silty shallows, and emerge with sand and grit in our socks.
Start by lightly buffing the front and sides of the frame to see if you like the shabby-chic, rustic look that emerges, or sand all the finish off to reveal a raw wood grain (as in the frame pictured above).
Emerging from the sand will be the New York City skyline.
Somehow, it has already acquired a historical aura, as if it were an antiquity whose head and paws are only now emerging from the sand.
"We [built] a giant shipwrecked astronaut emerging from the sand," Patterson says.
As we walked, she spied a desert mariposa lily, a single orange flower emerging from the sand.
Climb all over a massive sculpted man, head, arms and legs emerging from the sand on National Harbor's only beach.
Writing 'The Second Coming' in 1919, Yeats envisaged a "rough beast" in a "waste of desert sand" emerging from the wreckage of the First World War.
During the rainstorms, some runoff rates on the loess slopes with thicker sand layers were higher than the rainfall intensity due to rainwater combining with water emerging from the saturated sand, which could never occur on the uncovered loess slope.
Building booms, especially in emerging nations, increase world sand production with prices doubling since the end of the 20th century.
