i.Scrap - the Ocean installment

i.Went to Ocean City, New Jersey.  I took this photo last year while on a family vacation to Ocean City.  I chose this photo because it really portrays how I feel when I stand by the ocean.  Can't you just hear the choir of angels singing?

journaling reads:  I went to Ocean City. The Jersey Shore has been the site of many happy family vacations. Many memories have been made there. But for me, the Jersey Shore is merely symbolic of my HAPPY place - which is pretty much any place there is ocean!

When you are driving into Ocean City, before you can even see the water, you can feel the change in humidity and smell the tang of the salt air. Arriving at the beach is like coming home.  I love the sound of the waves washing into shore, the gulls squawking overhead, and the warmth of the sun on my shoulders. Looking out over the ocean, seeing the horizon line so far off, watching the wave break on the rocks and then flow back out to sea, I can't help but feel the power and majesty of the ocean, the vastness of the Universe, the smallness of me.  Filled with wonder and awe, calm and serenity.  When I am at the ocean, all is right with the world.