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I looked at the extended weather forecast and it is going to get hot, hot, hot.<\/p>\n

\"Snow<\/a>Wasatch Mountains from Farmington Bay WMA – Taken with my Nikon P & S<\/span><\/p>\n

So for today\u00a0I decided to post an image that said… cold<\/span>, snow<\/span> and winter<\/span>. Just looking at it seems to cool me down.<\/p>\n

I hope your first weekend of summer is delightful and full of the wonders of nature.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to post an image that said… cold, snow and winter. Just looking at it seems to cool me down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697,26,773],"tags":[4360,4035,4050,373],"class_list":["post-5215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","category-wasatch-mountains","tag-landscape-photography","tag-nature-photography","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wasatch-mountains-winter-mia-mcpherson-2756.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1m7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":90481,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/06\/16\/utah-is-hot-cooling-winter-wetland-views\/","url_meta":{"origin":5215,"position":0},"title":"Utah Is Hot – Cooling Winter Wetland Views","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"June 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Utah is hot. 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