Changing weather in the Wasatch Range – Nikon D500, f6.3, 1/5000, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
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.
Yesterday when I looked at the Wasatch Mountain Range 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.
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.
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.
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. My reaction to the vaccine is a good thing though because it means I am developing antibodies against the virus including the Omicron strain.
When I had the Pfizer vaccine previously I didn’t have these post-vaccine symptoms.
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.
Life is good.
Mia
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Beautiful shot. I hope it’s a harbinger of a long, heavy, winter. Thanks Mia.
Glad you’re feeling better. Covid has really been a game changer, hasn’t it?
Echoing everyone else. I hope you feel much, much better soon. And that you get the snow you need this season.
Gorgeous shot! Hopefully, you’ll have the opportunity to get some more like it this winter. We actually had some significant rain recently (of course, while we were getting work done on the house).
I’m sorry you’re not feeling 100%, although I agree that means that your immune system is hard at work. Looks like these shots will become an annual or bi-annual event — especially as one of the newer variants looks to potentially both be more contagious and cause greater illness.
I’ve had all the manufacturers — started with J&J, all my single-source boosters have been Moderna, and my bivalent was Pfizer. I figure that should protect me pretty well, although I’m still masking and doing my best to stay as far from people as possible. The only time I really felt bad was after my first Moderna. This last round, the flu shot arm was more sore than the Pfizer arm.
Glorious photo – i too hope the area will receive lots of snow this winter.
I also had the Moderna after having the Pfizer vaccines, but unlike you, I had no reaction whatsoever. Sigh. But i continue to mask to protect my-not-so-healthy-self. May you be feeling great soon.
I had the same reaction to the 3rd booster and it was a Pfizer one. I’m thinking it was due to the “dual-action” of this most recent booster. Like you mentioned, it’s a good thing! Feel better soon.
Take your time regaining your strength. Get all the rest you need. Love your posts!
You are right– the reaction means your immune system has been stimulated. I had breakthrough Covid despite having received the third shot. The grandchildren brought it home from school, we assume. It was very mild.
Beautiful mountain photo, Mia! We’re enjoying our last blast of beautiful warm weather here in the East Coast.
I, too, had a Moderna booster recently & I was laid low for about 4 days. Hopefully that was my body building up it’s immunity to the new strains. Sounds like we will be getting annual boosters, just like flu shots. I’d rather have a jab than a ventilator!
I hope you feel lots better very soon & back out in the field.