{"id":1235,"date":"2009-01-04T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2009-01-04T20:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:06:52","slug":"cheese_is_our_reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/04\/cheese_is_our_reward.html","title":{"rendered":"Cheese is our reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/3169532568\/\" title=\"New Year's Eve redux by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1091\/3169532568_9a4bf07bd4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"New Year's Eve redux\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>After celebrating a belated New Year&#8217;s Eve last night, now that Aimee and I are both in the same place, we woke up this morning resolved to tackle our hikes with gusto again, having lagged a bit with travel, house-hunting, and holidays in recent months.  After discovering, reporting, filing, and otherwise dealing with a smashed window and stolen radio in Aimee&#8217;s car, we headed to Laurel Canyon for a short hike in an apparently very popular spot: Fryman Canyon in Wilacre Park.<BR><BR>The parking lot was pretty packed, but there was a certain justice in seeing a very illegally parked car with the license plate &#8220;PRETNSH&#8221; getting a ticket:<BR><BR><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/3169501206\/\" title=\"Fryman Canyon Loop by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3267\/3169501206_da64268338.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Fryman Canyon Loop\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>The hike was pleasant, with a nice incline to start us off and make us feel a little pain.  Perhaps, as Aimee thought, it was all of those newly-resolved fitness buffs getting out on a nice Sunday morning, but the place was packed with all kinds: families, mountain bikers, dog-walkers, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of our walk, we came upon the <a title=\"TreePeople, S. Mark Taper Fnd. Amphitheatre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.treepeople.org\/vfp.dll?OakTree~getPage~&#038;PNPK=40\">TreePeople \/ S. Mark Taper Amphitheatre<\/a>. a little gem of a performance space (with seating for 99) in the middle of the woods.  We made a vow to see something there next summer, when the season starts again.<BR><BR><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/3169527714\/\" title=\"Fryman Canyon Loop by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1036\/3169527714_d0e1bd0d6c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Fryman Canyon Loop\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>On our way out, we walked through a neighborhood to get back to the parking lot, and came upon a house for sale whose ugliness and scale we marveled at. We took guesses as to how much we though it was listed for; sadly, we were each about $7 million off: <a title=\"11947 Iredell Street, Studio City CA Villa | Sotheby's International Realty, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sothebyshomes.com\/socal\/sales\/0305022\">Sotheby&#8217;s lists the house for a hair under $10 million<\/A>.  Wow.  <\/p>\n<p>As our thoughts turned to lunch, Aimee and I were on the same page, and we decided to stroll through the Famer&#8217;s Market (no Ed Begley this time) to the amazing Artisan Cheese Gallery, where <a title=\"Fern Dell and Studio City\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/18\/fern_dell_and_studio_city.html\">we ate once after a walk<\/A> a few years back. I had a very tasty fried egg BLT with gruyere, and Aimee had a mozzarella and pesto sandwich.  Tasty, as always. Now it&#8217;s back to work for both of us, and no more vacation in sight for many months.  And so it goes&#8230;  Here&#8217;s to 2009!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/3169531150\/\" title=\"Fryman Canyon Loop by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3102\/3169531150_195f5fce2a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Fryman Canyon Loop\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"60 Hikes #15: Fryman Canyon Loop 1\/4\/09 - a set on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/sets\/72157612179223404\/\">More photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After celebrating a belated New Year&#8217;s Eve last night, now that Aimee and I are both in the same place, we woke up this morning resolved to tackle our hikes with gusto again, having lagged a bit with travel, house-hunting, and holidays in recent months. After discovering, reporting, filing, and otherwise dealing with a smashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los_angeles","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}