It has been brought to my attention that I have in some way ticked you off...I would like to formally apologize for this, however, I am not sure what it is exactly that has made you hate me so much. Is it because every January I complain day in and day out that I hate the winter weather, I no longer enjoy your three feet of snow and -35 temps? In my defense I have two small children to wrestle into snow suits every morning at 7:20am, oh yes I realize Ella does not need to be at school until 8:30am this is just how long it takes us to get everything on an out the door, maybe you were not aware of that. Possibly it is because come July I am instantly mad at your +30 temps as they make me cranky and uncomfortable, its just that I hate tank tops and shorts make my legs resemble chickens and lets be honest with eachother that is just not flattering. Also I am now living in Calgary and must say living on the island spoiled me, I became accustomed to seeking comfort under a shady tree wherever I looked, this can not be found here in Calgary and my kids love to go to the park when its +25 and its just not fun to sit out in the sun baking with no shade while they cry because their little butt was just burnt on a steel slide, I am sure you can sympathize with me on that one. Is it because I am constantly cursing you? constantly annoyed with your wind in my hair, again you must give me a break, I have extremely thick hair and it hurts to brush out all those knots after an afternoon at the zoo when you have decided that it would be best to have it be a very comfortable +16 when I leave the house to go to the zoo and then laugh as you make the wind blow me away once I get out of the car because you know full well there is no getting those kids to leave once they get there.
Regardless, I have had to rebook shoot after shoot because of you, I prayed to you on Leslie and Kelly's wedding day in hopes of you giving me a break and making a beautiful sunset at the very least, well you were either not home or choosing to ignore me at that moment. I re booked Erin's family shoot 3 times due to your weather and when I finally gave in and shot it in your blizzard you presented a beautiful day the following day. I re booked the Hassman's because of your winter deep freeze, I know their photos came out nicely but they would have been fantastic outdoors and you know that. Lets not even talk about the Blaker's session!!
So I ask Mother Nature, why oh why is today a lovely +8 with the perfect amount of sunshine and why oh why is Thursday a very acceptable +16 and, as you know full well, I am shooting a wedding on Saturday, WHY is it going to snow??? Honestly, Mother Nature, don't you think this a tad Elementary of you? can we not be grown ups and work together? As I said above I would really like to apologize to you I will try not to complain quite so much about the weather if you could just once give me a decent day to take some photographs, after all its not just me you are hurting its Dave and Nichole, and I don't know what gets said behind closed doors but have they too ticked you off?? Because if so I can imagine they are also very sorry.
Anyway just wanted to clear the air a bit, give you some time to stew on this before Saturday and possibly change your mind, maybe we could be friends after all?? I will continue to check the weather station in hopes we have resolved this little issue.
I've added this picture I took last summer to show you I really do love you some of the time!
Respectfully yours
Gina.
Love your blog. It really dispays your personality...I read it often.
ReplyDeleteHoney! You are BRILLIANT! I LOVED that letter to mother nature. I so enjoy your style of writing and so often the words seem too feel as if they are somehow pulled straight from my own life. I really needed to read something like this today. Thank you so much for taking the time to express yourself like this. We are all better for it!!!
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