It has allowed plants, such as early sand grass and various orchids, to pop their heads out of the soil for the first time in years.
She said she wanted all children living there to not only enjoy quality time with their mothers, but to be able to play with sand, touch grass and see the sky.
The bottom is mainly brilliant white sand or greenish grass, but we were searching for the vaguely brown and yellow hues that indicate the rocks and coral where Caribbean spiny lobster (commonly referred to as "bugs" for their insect-like appearance) live.
These are the funny-looking Swiss-made shoes that mimic the experience of walking barefoot in sand or on soft grass.
You may well have read about this, but there, among the machair grass and sand dunes, they are recreating a golf course first designed by the father of golf, Old Tom Morris.
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Although feet were designed to walk barefoot on Earth's natural surfaces (grass, sand or gravel), they were not prepared to endure the concrete, asphalt and steel that covers so many landscapes today, Thompson said.
In a stroke of good fortune, this place, Pinehurst, happened to be located in a part of North Carolina known as the Sandhills, because underneath the grass everything was sand, not soil.
Whereas Pinehurst No. 2 converted to grass greens from sand greens in the early 1930s, Overhills didn't upgrade until the 1950s, by which time the syndicate had long since disbanded and the estate had passed in its entirety to the heirs of Percy Rockefeller.
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The anchorchain arcs down into it, through shafts of sunlight, to where the sand is patched with sea-grass.
He said fencing and encouraging maram grass, which helps to hold sand dunes together, after it was found growing in the area had stabilized the dunes.
Restoration work, such as reconstructing salt marshes near the island of Burano and sand dunes at Cavallino, and planting eel grass all over the place, is part of the solution.
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
Shifting constantly, the mighty mountains of sand are born when a few grains collect around a nest of grass.
He finished fifth in his one grass-green tournament this spring, and aspires to a college golf scholarship, which several sand-greens players from the area have earned.
Cattle browsed in the grass, and the distinctive call of a sandhill crane carried on the wind that flowed down from ancient sand dunes in the distance.
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