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A visitor

Posted by Mike Voss on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, In : weather

This little guy and his friends come by to visit every afternoon and sun themselves on the screens of our porch. The odd thing is I only see them when I'm in the shade on the porch taking a break from sunning myself.

70 Degrees in February in the Chicago area

Posted by Mike Voss on Thursday, February 23, 2017, In : weather

This is what 70 degrees on a Saturday looks like in the month of February near Chicago when the norm is around 25 degrees with a howling 40 mile an hour wind and horizontal snow stinging your face.

Baseball...yeah!

Posted by Mike Voss on Saturday, March 19, 2016, In : events

It feels great to be outside shooting baseball,at any level,again. It means spring and then summer are definitely on the horizon here in the frozen north.
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Why do this?

Posted by Mike Voss on Saturday, February 27, 2016, In : improving your photography

That's me atop a ladder on a roof in the rain on a very cold and windy day. You might wonder why I would do this, and the truth is I kind of wonder myself.
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Winter at Last

Posted by Mike Voss on Sunday, January 17, 2016,

We have been lucky because this winter has been very mild in the mid western USA until now. However Mother Nature has decided to remind us what the "normal" winter is like. The temperature outside now is 6 degrees, but because of the wind it feels like 13 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Yikes and it's supposed to be even worse tomorrow. There will be some interesting cold weather photos to be made I'm sure.