{"id":107543,"date":"2022-10-27T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T10:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=107543"},"modified":"2022-10-27T05:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:29:48","slug":"under-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/10\/27\/under-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Under The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChangingChanging weather in the Wasatch Range \u2013 Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/5000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

For the first time this winter, snow fell at home yesterday night. Although the snow didn’t stick, it is a sign of the weather changing. We need every flake of snow and drop of rain that we can get here in northern Utah and throughout the west.<\/p>\n

Yesterday when I looked at the Wasatch Mountain Range<\/span><\/a> from down in the valley I could see snow on the peaks. The photo above was taken a few years back on a cold January afternoon. I hope we get plenty of snow up in our mountains this winter but I am not convinced that will happen. The effects of climate change have altered the snow levels here along with the lake effect snows we get because of the Great Salt Lake. The lake is low enough now that we get fewer lake effect snowfalls in the Wasatch Range.<\/p>\n

The mention of being “under the weather” in my title has very little to do with the rain and snow that we have gotten over the past few days.<\/p>\n

I got my Covid booster on Tuesday morning and I have personally felt under the weather since I went to sleep that night. Prior to Tuesday all of my Covid vaccines were made by Pfizer but the health department office where I got my booster was out of the Pfizer vaccine so I had a choice to get the Moderna vaccine or find another health department office that had the Pfizer vaccine and drive to that office. I wanted to get the booster done and over with so I opted for the Moderna vaccine.<\/p>\n

When I went to sleep Tuesday I felt fine. By around midnight my arm was sore, my body was achy, and I didn’t sleep well at all. Last night was more of the same. So I am physically under the weather<\/em>. My reaction to the vaccine is a good thing though because it means I am developing antibodies against the virus including the Omicron strain.<\/p>\n

When I had the Pfizer vaccine previously I didn’t have these post-vaccine symptoms.<\/p>\n

I am drinking plenty of fluids, napping to catch up on my sleep, and taking it easy. Hopefully I will get past this “under the weather” stage soon and go back to feeling and being myself.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Utah landscape photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time this winter, snow fell at home yesterday night. 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