Remembering Mike Watts, my friend

This past weekend, we lost my good friend Mike Watts.

Mike was the track photographer at both Mohawk International Raceway in Hogansburg and Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh.

Mike loved stock car racing and was a great friend. Mike was the kind of guy that made you feel special whenever you talked to him.

All of us in the North Country racing community are devastated by his loss. My deepest sympathies to his wife Jane and sons Mike Jr. and Andy.

This Gift from Mother Nature

Okay, I live in New York's North Country, ten miles from the Canadian border.

It snows here. It's winter six months of the year up here. I get that.

But this is the view of my backyard this afternoon, April 27th, 2010.

The month of May starts in a mere 78 hours...three days...and it's time to get the shovel out!

(Still, snow vs. tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, droughts, wildfires...I guess having to shovel in the last week of April isn't so bad.)