The moving sand...

Almost all of Cape Cod is subject to movement in one way or another but especially our outer edges. Between water, sand and wind our beaches and boundaries are far from static. Sand dunes are especially movable...

Some of them hang around long enough to have beach grass and even bushes grow on them but some sides of them are always open to the wind and are often scraped clean like the sides of bowls by the time spring rolls around....

This bench was anchored with cement posts and depending on the season it is either half buried or the posts are exposed as they are here....

Off to the side of the bench one can find the straying sand here, almost covering a stand of poverty grass...

Just for reference, this is what that poverty grass should look like. This patch was around the corner and had not been covered by blowing sand.....yet....

It is interesting living in a place where the ocean, wind and land are in constant flux....