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I think I was out for a jog when I tried not to step on this guy. It doesn’t look like a normal part of the path I would have been running, but I’m not sure what other reason I had to be out here when no one else is around in daylight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why take one picture when I could keep trying to re-frame it? I did not want to get up close and the iPhone 13 doesn’t zoom very far, so I did not get any overly artistic shots. That’s not really my speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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