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Crystal and Jerry {Mesa Temple engagement session}

Engagement session time for my cousin Crystal and her fiancé Jerry!

We met up at the Temple in Mesa, Arizona where they are getting married next month for engagement photos of the two of them. The Temple grounds was such a beautiful location for engagement photos.  There are gorgeous flowers and plants there that I have never seen growing anywhere else. Before Crystal and Jerry got there I walked around taking in all the beauty of the flowers. Our grandmother (my grandmother/Crystal's great-grandmother) would have found the flowers as enchanting as I did. There were even flowers and cat tails near the reflecting pool there were almost black in color. Pretty amazing looking! I would love to go back there to do more engagement sessions. And I would love to do bridal sessions there! It was very hot that evening, but Crystal and Jerry rocked it and made it look easy! Just as were leaving, the clouds started rolling in and not long after we left there was a summer monsoon. It was a very lovely summer evening for all of us and I can't wait for their late summer wedding!

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{Arizona Monsoon}

(Post by Becky)

When I heard the low rumble of thunder the other day I knew I just had to go outside and watch the storm advance. And what a storm it was! I drove to Gilbert High School and climbed to the top of the bleachers where I could see the massive clouds and the heat lightening and hear the thunder. The heat was, literally, breathtaking; the air came in hot, bothered gusts. The clouds were huge! And impossibly white on top with dark grey underbellies promising rain.

I was busy earlier today going through my files when I came across a folder called, simply, "Clouds". Curious, I explored this forgotten folder, and found images of the 2009 monsoon that I had taken out in the Superstition Mountains in the Arizona Desert.