Today the beaches of Galveston Island are clean - kudos to the volunteers and other crews that keep it that way. It inspired me to do my part by removing a couple of plastic bottles and cups left in the sand.

It was extremely windy and the fine sugar like sand kept blasting into my face and into my eyes. It took quite a few tries to capture these beautiful Helianthus debilis (beach sunflowers) as they danced in the morning light.

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