Jeremy, That's probably the best thing I've seen you post. Good job! No, don't clone out anything. What is this urge to prettify everything in post processing? Surely some of these prettifiers have shot color transparencies where you have to get it right in the camera. Sometimes -- but very, very, very rarely -- you'll run into a situation where you can't avoid cutting something out of the picture, but if it happens more than about once a year there's something wrong with your approach to composition. In this case the rest of the environment includes some branches and another monkey off to the right. There's nothing wrong with that and the branch doesn't detract from the balance of the picture.