Little St. Simon’s Island is a privately-owned, barrier island off the coast of Georgia. I visited with my family in October 2019 after Hurricane Dorian had struck the month before. As I was leaving the beach the afternoon before our departure, I looked down and noticed fantastical patterns embedded in the sand. Hurricane Dorian had transported dark sand from the northern part of the island and deposited it where I stood. The dark sand was swirled together with light-colored sand. Embedded within these sand paintings were bits of shell and other organic matter. All the elements of wind, water, and earth collided in a unique way, in this exact spot, to create beautiful, abstract, and seemingly unearthly patterns in the sand.