Albert Einstein – MINDING MY P'S WITH Q

We drove the fifty-two miles to Ocean City, New Jersey, on Friday, just because it was a glorious October day.

We had lunch at Manco and Manco Pizza, just because we think they make the best pizza in the world. Truly, it is!

We biked both ways of the 2.5 mile Boardwalk just because riding a bicycle close to ocean waves is wonderful.

We walked down to the beach, just because the October day was near eighty degrees, and I wanted to gather a few seashells to paint for Jersey Shore Shells.

At the 22nd street beach entrance, I was entranced by the strings of shells adorning every fencepost on the way down to the shoreline. Some posts even had more than one string. Beautiful. Why did the creative beachcombers take the time to do it? Probably, just because it was fun. I need to give into more enjoyable impulses, such as stringing seashells, JUST BECAUSE life is short, and really, why not enjoy every moment you can?

Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~Albert Einstein

This post is part of Skywatch Friday.

A seashore or bay town is usually a boon to the creative spirit of its inhabitants. This horizontal line-up of birdhouses on the porch of a trailer in Fortescue, New Jersey, is a testament to creativity, and also a good photo for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Horizontal Lines.

I was surprised to find CREATIVITY listed as a virtue by Virtues for Life. This virtue, for me personally, is a lot easier to achieve than some of the stickier virtues…such as ‘Flexibility or Detachment,’ two virtues I have trouble following at times.

Another good example of horizontal lines is this flat-bottomed boat appropriately named, ‘The Greenhead Hotel.’ If you’ve ever been to the Delaware Bay or another New Jersey salt marsh in summer you won’t need to be told what greenhead implies. Once bitten by a greenhead fly you will never forget the name or the big pinch of the bite.