My first follower: Wendy

Her name is Wendy Corn and she has a sweet blog www.areyoubreathing.com.

I first spied Wendy the same way I first spotted my hubby, through a 650mm lens I used to take millions of surf photos with back in the day. Not to offend, but I thought she was a guy and that was a high compliment, still is, for a girl surfer. Though I never knew her very well, the Monterey surfing community is a big, dysfunctional family and as their photographer for about a decade, I tended to keep track of the "hot" surfers. Wendy was not only talented and quietly graceful, but her reputation remained dignified in a time when that was a challenge.

Mark can tell me a lot more about Wendy, having surfed Moss Landing and Carmel with her many, many frigidly cold offshore mornings while I was hunkered down, warm and cozy, in whatever little house we were renting in Seaside at the time with our babies and toddlers. Eventually, Wendy met and married Stefan, just as kind and dignified as Miss Wendy, and they produced two adorable boys. They became our neighbors here in Marina at some point. Always a treat visiting on the sidewalk in front of the house as they walked their baby boys.

So, here's to you, Wendy, for continuing to surf long after most moms hang up the wetsuit and for sharing your whimsical life on your blog. Let's get out and ride mt bikes in west Ft. Ord sometime! I think you would do better in relation to my speed and ability there than I would do out in the water with you. You still "surf like a guy."