{"id":42245,"date":"2026-07-30T00:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=42245"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:56:21","slug":"not-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/07\/not-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Not already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, it’s the end of July already – I’d be really annoyed if I was still back in school. Well, that goes without saying, since I should have been on summer break all through July, but what I meant<\/em> was, I’d be really annoyed that summer break was already half over. As you may derive from that, I was never terribly fond of school, information that may either surprise you or make you nod knowingly – “Yeah, the lack of writing skills kinda makes that obvious, Al,” you say, blissfully ignorant that “kinda” is not a word.<\/p>\n

But quit trying to distract me from the topic at hand, which is, the end-of-the-month abstract. This time I come prepared, with two proper abstracts, certified even, though again, that schooling thing may make you ponder my grasp of the definition. No matter! We plunge onward, and present this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"lone
Shouldn’t be too hard to figure out what we’re looking at here, but there’s a detail that I like. The difference between the lake surface and the foggy sky is barely delineated by a faint color change, the effect, I think, of the water polarizing the light reflecting from it. Or maybe not. Don’t care – I still like it, though not having that vague distinction would make it more<\/em> abstract. Or is it austere? Astringent?<\/p>\n

And another.<\/p>\n

\"wild
Aha, not prepared for something this<\/em> abstentious, were you? It kind of<\/em> looks like a place where someone was attempting to color-match some beige paint and got pissed off. Maybe the feathers on a juvenile pootoo. Perhaps the stains on the inside of a latte machine (are there latte machines? I don’t know – I don’t drink the stuff.) In any event, I think it fits the month-end obligation.<\/p>\n

The question now remains, how many more of the pics actually shot this month can I get up before the day ends? The heat is on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, it’s the end of July already – I’d be really annoyed if I was still back in school. Well, that goes without saying, since I should have been on summer break all through July, but what I meant was, I’d be really annoyed that summer break was already half over. As you may derive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1529,2194,5091,3798],"class_list":["post-42245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-fog","tag-its-log-its-log-its-big","tag-jordan-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42250,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42245\/revisions\/42250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}