I need to get my old van ready to travel in a week or so. It’s mostly ready to go, but it needed some cleaning up in the inside and I needed to check out the food in there and replace it. I’ll be shopping this week to stock up. I also need to grease it and check the engine out but I didn’t get to that part today.
I worked on that on and off all day.
Why the prep
In about a week I plan to make the journey down to Arizona for a few weeks of messing around the Quartzsite area and maybe work my way into the Southeast area too, around Ajo and the Dragoon Mountains. Can’t let the Canadians have all the fun.
Making rain
Making more rain. We still haven’t had any rain lately so I continued to make my own rain as I want to get the ground nice and wet while the springs are flowing nicely and not much water is being used for anything else right now. Some of the fruit trees are starting to put on a nice show.
And I finished up taking the tops of the apple trees down a couple of feet. I’m just ready to prune this one down about two feet and it’s the last one that needs this operation.
A nice view of all the blooming stuff around the driveway. The daffs are in full bloom and the fruit trees are just getting started blooming.
Helping the bamboo along, I hope
Wetting down the bamboo patch. Most of my bamboo died and riced out last summer. I’m hoping new shoots pop up soon but I’m not really sure what it will do. I sure hope it comes back this year. New shoots usually pop up in March and April so I’ll soon know.
River’s mouth video
This evening I worked on putting the videos together from my kayak trip the other day. I’m uploading right now. It takes a few hours and when it’s done I’ll post this blog.
Enjoyed your videos! Hey, maybe we’ll meet you yet! We’ll be in the Q until Match 31st.
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Header Pictures
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.
Enjoyed your videos! Hey, maybe we’ll meet you yet! We’ll be in the Q until Match 31st.