Sand as a component of soil is defined as a soil particle
ranging in size from 0.005 to 2.0mm, anything smaller is silt or
clay and anything larger is not considered soil. Sand is also
one the three soil textural classes.  We are at the reservoir of
a place where rocks are beaten and beaten with hearty blows of
water and other rocks into sand.  The water isn't green or blue,
it's brown. Brown and warm, very shallow, like a puddle. We wade
out. And out. And out. Our blanket and bags are dots on the
beach. The sand beneath my feet is more like mud as my feet sink
in, and in, and in, as through the belly of some decaying soft
beast. It seems unnatural to be this far out and only waist high
in water. Salty, salty water the color of pennies turning green
in the change tray of the car.  We come back to find that the
wind has buried our belongings in sand. The blanket looks like
just a frame of a sandbox, our shoes black moles buried to their
necks by sick children's pranks. The wind pushed the sand to
bite into our