Mother Nature reached out today to taunt me for being professional enough to give notice at the cube. One week before the little law firm‘s return to a mandatory Wetsuit Wednesday™ dress code, San Diego was hit with record surf topping 20 feet in some areas. No wet gear in the cubemobile, despite the well-intentioned tempting of a new friend, but I did grab the camera in case the lunch hour found me near the coast.

Lunch hour stretched a bit as I stood in awe at the spectacle. There weren’t many surfers out, and most of those I saw try to paddle out failed. Many, like this gentleman, got suited up, stretched out, then realized the futility of the effort and simply watched. Many others just watched. There were definitely more photographers than surfers at the beach today. My only complaint was that I couldn’t really capture the sheer size of the waves on the camera. Without a reference point in the image, they mostly came out just looking like any other waves on any other day.

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