{"id":1571,"date":"2007-07-01T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-hike\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T17:35:36","slug":"no-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-hike","title":{"rendered":"No hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I graced you guys with two straight weekends of great hike photos, but that streak comes to a close this weekend. What’s sad is that the weather today is absolutely gorgeous, and there are plenty of trails to hit.<\/p>\n

However, I’m rendering unto Caesar this weekend, laying out the pages for that Top Companies issue. It requires a ton of nit-picky work, and if I don’t get this part wrapped up by tonight, it’ll be much tougher to finish the whole shebang before July 4th.<\/p>\n

So, no great outdoors for me this weekend, but I promise to get out and take plenty of photos as the summer progresses, provided it doesn’t get beastly hot out here.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s a pic of My Favorite Mermaid at last weekend’s Mermaid Parade at Coney Island:<\/p>\n

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Her group was Charlie’s Angelfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I graced you guys with two straight weekends of great hike photos, but that streak comes to a close this weekend. What’s sad is that the weather today is absolutely gorgeous, and there are plenty of trails to hit. However, I’m rendering unto Caesar this weekend, laying out the pages for that Top … <\/p>\n

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