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Grains of sand magnified 250x
Just think, this is what you're walking on at Johnson's Beach, millions of little gems underfoot. Miraculous!

MAUI SAND GRAINS ARRANGEMENT #2 This image is a handful of sand grains selected from a beach in Maui and arranged onto a black background. The colors and shapes of these tiny grains of sand are surprisingly different and astonishingly beautiful, each with it’s own individual in character

PUFFY STAR - Sand grains from Okinawa, Japan are made from the skeletons of single-celled forams that produce these beautiful little shells

 

all images from A Grain of Sand - Natures Secret Wonder by Dr. Gary Greenberg

Do more digging at sandgrains.com

See you at the beach,

Susan

Winter at the Beach

Photo, PihaLightOnSea by LeonieGirlinTheWorld

The days are short
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.
 

~John Updike, "January," A Child’s Calendar, 1965