Barry showed up this morning and wanted to work on opening this trail I worked on yesterday. He also wanted to get some more buckets of clay, so we hopped in Hondo and headed up to the trail.
Barry cuts a small log off the trail.
We worked our way all the way down to the end of the trail and walked back to my rig.
Headed to the blue clay area
Then we took this road, headed to the blue clay deposit.
Fox gloves are starting
On the way, I noticed the fox gloves are just starting to bloom.
Blue clay
At the blue clay site, Barry loaded up three buckets of clay. It appears like this blue clay deposit might be a big one which is good as I have lots of uses for blue clay.
Pond
I stopped at the pond on the way back to my place. The fox gloves are just starting to bloom here too.
Forest ride, planting poppy seeds
We made it back to my house and switched to the motor bikes for a ride in the hills.
Barry had a bunch of poppy seeds with him that we had to stop most everywhere so he could scatter some seeds.
This ridge was a good place for some of the seeds.
And this spot gets a lot of sun so they should do well here.
He had a lot of poppy seeds but eventually he ran out of them.
Drink
We stopped at this spring for a drink of water.
Resting
Eventually we made it up to our break area at the top.
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.
