It rained during the night on a off and some in the morning before I got up.
It seemed to be letting up around noon when I decided to go up into the forest to work on a trail, just for something to do today.
I didn’t’ put any rain gear on, but maybe I should have as it showered on me for the first hour or so while I was working up there
Big black cloud
That big black cloud was right over where I was going up to work. If I got wet it was only a short distance to home.
I rode up that little trail across the road and up the hill to the spot where I wanted to work today.
Trail work
I parked the quad here as the trail I wanted to work on was right behind the machine.
The old animal trail went right under that bent over small tree and that’s where I started.
The rain showers started right after I got started. I had to get under a big tree for awhile until the heavier showers passed on by.
This was the beginning of the trail where I started after cutting that bent tree out of the way.
And after working on that part, I covered it up with mulch so it looks like this when I’m done.
I continued on going through these logs which I’ll have to come back later to cut out of the way.
I continued on up the trail. The dirt was soft and easy to move, although a bit on the muddy side.
Cocoon
I spotted this thing on the ground and it’s not what you may think it is. It’s a cocoon, very tough stuff. I think it may be from a big moth, maybe a phoenix moth which are quite large. It had hatched out so nobody was home.
Muddy shoes
The rains made the dirt muddy and I did get my shoes a bit on the muddy side.
I did get a little wet so I quit early and headed on home the long way going down this trail.
Dirty shoes
I let the chickens out then got the water hose out to clean some of the mud off my shoes. The shoes are water proof so my feet kept dry during the process.
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.
Such a delightfully muddy little boy.