Weather mishaps

Oh, you wouldn’t believe what this poor family went through to get here today! First, since the husband trains a lot out of town, they only had a window of two days to do a session while he was still here or they’d have to wait until Christmas. We booked the session for today at the Founder’s Garden, figuring that if something happened, we’d have another day to shoot. So, yesterday, I check the weather and it’s supposed to POUR for both days they have. So, I call her and let her know we’ll just have to do the session with blankets on the wet ground, but that it should stop raining in time for our 8am session. Mom texts me at 6:30am today and says she has left her house (she lives 2 hours away!) and that it’s pouring where she is. So I write her back and say it’s dry here, session’s still on. 7am, it’s raining here, 7:30am and it’s now POURING. Arg. So, weather says 10am should be sunny, so I tell her to putter around for a while and then we’ll still meet in the same place, no problem. 8:30, still pouring and now weather says there’s no 10am window. So, instead of making her drive 2 hours back with nothing to show for it, we agree to meet at the studio at 9am instead and just use the awnings to keep everyone dry. Whew! The poor baby was already done when we got there but we did our best! Thank goodness for mellow, flexible clients!!