Rain Makes Everything Beautiful

"Those who say only sunshine brings happiness have never danced in the rain."

I'm not sure if you remember, but back in June we had a week were it rained all day...for days. Wet, grey, drizzly days with no end in sight. Laura called me a couple of days before their scheduled session, concerned about the weather. We decided to move her session to sunrise a day early to see if we could squeeze it in between the storms. The morning of the session when I got up it was raining. I live in Northern Bay County, so I was hoping by some miracle that it wasn't raining on the beach. I spoke with Laura and unfortunately, it was raining there too. We decided that I would head on out anyway and see what happened. I got my girls up and we headed to the beach with the promise of Thomas's Donuts for getting up so early.

When I got there it was a steady drizzle of rain. Laura and her family looked so nice in their outfits. I expected her to cancel but to my surprise she said that if I was willing to shoot in the rain so were they. Ya'll we had so much fun! The waves were huge and the wind was crazy. You couldn't even see the sun for the clouds. They played in the rain. My girls played with her girls. They laughed and got soaking wet before it was all over. It was seriously one of my favorite sessions ever. I told her husband, this is something I would do and my husband would tell me I'm crazy. He said with a smile, "I did tell her this was crazy." Thank goodness for families willing to get a little wet, husbands that go along with the crazy, and Thomas's Donuts.