That’s what I did this morning just taking it easy in the yard enjoying the nice day.
Visiting
Around 2 I jumped on the dirt bike and headed up into the forest headed to some of my neighbors that live up on the hilltops west of me.
On the way I stopped here to get this wind blown dead tree off the road.
A little bit further I ran into this mess of trees on the road. Too heavy for me to move but I remember my brother Barry and I rode around the end of this on the hill side, just barely making it.
Wild morning glories
I was surprised to run into these wild morning glories just before I got to my neighbor’s gate.
Lots of wild white morning glories along this part of the road.
I kept going up the road and went through their gate. Well actually, there is a hole in the fence by the gate they leave open for neighbors to get through.
Hilltop views
This was the view to the west as I entered the neighbors property. Over the last hills as far as you can is is the Pacific ocean, not far as the crow flies.
Our family property is on that highest hill and to the left of it and the town of Guerneville is just over the top of it and in the valley beyond.
I continued riding up the road.
And down this road to their house which is in those trees up ahead.
Dogs greet me
The gate was closed when I got there and the dogs came to the gate barking away. I yelled I was there but the dogs where making so much noise I didn’t think anyone could hear me. But eventually I heard Rob say the dogs were harmless, but one of them I wasn’t sure of.
I opened the gate and went on in and the dogs where mostly friendly, just doing their job.
Good visit
I visited with Rob and Laura for most of the afternoon, shooting the bull. Rob was interested in how I tap water springs so I’ll likely be helping him with that in the future and Laura is real interested in the history of this area, especially the state park where she used to work.
Eventually I had to leave as they had to get back to work doing some house cleaning getting ready for an Easter party they were having.
Dirt bike ride in the forest
It was such a nice day out I went for a ride in the forest on the way home going by the Guerneville overlook.
This is the view of the little town of Guerneville which the river flows by sometimes flooding the town.
Spring water check
On the way down the hill I stopped at our main spring to check the water flow. Two gallons a minute which is pretty good. We have some other spring too connected into the system.
Water tanks
And I stopped the check the water level in our storage tanks which were full to the top so I was good to go to do lots more weed watering at home.
Back home it was nap time. And in the evening I did a lot of chair hopping around the yard moving water sprinklers around to water weeds and just sitting around enjoying the nice day.
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.
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