I was sitting in the yard this morning when I heard some squirrels scampering up in this big redwood tree. I heard them but never did see them.
I also noticed it was fairly windy up in the top of that tree so I thought I’d take the dirt bike and ride up the Talking Trees Trail to see if any of the trees were talking.
Talking Trees Trail
I gassed the bike and rode up to this spot and parked the bike and did some exploring on foot.
I walked up this trail to the waterfall just looking around.
And down through here, just taking my time enjoying the forest.
Checking the creek banks out
I was standing here checking out the deep creek banks and decided to work my way into the creek to see what might be on the banks down there.
I walked into these undercuts and had a look see.
Then I had a look down the creek checking things out.
Animal dens
One of the things I was looking for was animal dens and I found this active one, but don’t know what is using it.
And this one was active also and was near the other one.
I walked up this trail checking stuff out along the way.
And I went back in the creek here to have a look. It was interesting looking around.
No talking trees today
The wind wasn’t getting into this valley much so the trees were silent today but it was still real nice under the redwood trees just the same.
Rock work
After several hours looking around and exploring in that area, I hopped back on the dirt bike and rode to this spot on a road and stopped to throw rocks off the road.
You can see some of the rocks I threw off the road. Good exercise.
I cleared most of the rocks off this section of the road which took longer than I thought it would but now we can ride through here without risking a banged up tire.
Headed home
After doing that I rode on down this road headed for home.
Tanks
Of course I checked the water tank levels on the way which were about the same as yesterday, almost full.
Back home I had a nap then went out and sat with the chickens.
Nothing better than a fresh air walk or ride and then an afternoon Happy Hour with the chickens. :)
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Nothing better than a fresh air walk or ride and then an afternoon Happy Hour with the chickens. :)