{"id":11001,"date":"2016-07-15T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:26:50","slug":"friday-frogs-flowers-bread-baking-and-bike-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=11001","title":{"rendered":"Friday: frogs, flowers, bread baking and bike riding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leica M, 350 mm Telyt – R<\/p>\n

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Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit – R + 2 x Apo<\/p>\n

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Been an interesting week\u2026 which\u00a0began ANEW\u00a0last Saturday\u2026
\nwhen I went to look at, and took possession of, a used, large frame (35″ inseam),
\nrelatively current, 2008, road bike,\u00a0found on Craigs List, at a price that I can almost afford.
\nSeventy miles, and few thousand calories burned, later; I love to ride again.
\nI enjoyed riding my\u00a0“burro” (an early 80s Miyata Trail Runner) for the last 30 years.
\nBut I have not “loved” riding; sitting upright; on that large cushy saddle.
\nNot like I loved\u00a0the 70s Motobecane Grand Tour (stolen) and Motobecane Grand Record which replaced the Tour.
\nI’d actually forgotten the speed and efficiency of a well designed road bike that “fits.”
\nNow I’m remembering past rides out to Monches and Holy Hill and all around the East Side;
\nand biking up the Locust Street hill with little Tanya in the Canondale Bugger trailer.
\nSo here’s my “last” bike\u2026 a Motobecane Super Strada\u2026 a decent and “efficient” rode ride.<\/p>\n

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Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit – R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 350 mm Telyt – R Leica M, 100 mm Apo Elmarit – R + 2 x Apo Been an interesting week\u2026 which\u00a0began ANEW\u00a0last Saturday\u2026 when I went to look at, and took possession of, a used, large frame (35″ inseam), relatively current, 2008, road bike,\u00a0found on Craigs List, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,54,55,72,33,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-fawna","category-flora","category-food","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}