With a crazy upcoming wedding season, my engagement sessions have been frequent and oh so fun! Engagements are my favorite because it’s the same emotion as the wedding but with less stress. Anyway, I had the privilege of working with a really great couple last weekend and they had requested that one location be in a field with tall grass. Unfortunately, all the fields I had in mind were too far away so I began to do a little location scouting. Really what this involved was me, my car, some crackers and the open road. I was literally just driving around on the winding roads of McKinney, TX, thinking to myself, if anything happens to me…no one will ever know! At the same time, as the roads twisted and turned and the city got farther and farther away, I was struck by the peacefulness that surrounded me. No high-rise apartment buildings. No sky scrapers. No mix masters. No lines of traffic. No angry drivers. Just the countryside with a few houses spread out in a healthy distance from one another. It was…well, it was QUIET.
As I drove and drank in the peace in quiet, I stopped on the side of the road. It had caught my eye. The sun caught its blades of unkempt grass and they glowed as they blew in the wind. It was nothing super special, just a field that no one really cared about but to me, it was perfect. Perfect in its simplicity. Perfect in its peacefulness. A perfect reminder that sometimes the most moving things are the simplest.
So, in the name of open fields, tall grass and life’s simpler moments,
I Say, Take Me Back!
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