The sun was shining nicely when I got it going today, so I decided to take a little walk up into the hills.
I walked down this road.
And continued around the hill on this one.
Here I jumped off the road and walked down through these redwoods.
I picked up another road and continued on.
I stopped here in this spot to take a break and enjoy the day.
All was good at the water tanks
I headed on down the hill going by our spring water tanks. I looked over and could see water coming out of the overfill pipe so all was good there, plenty of water.
Here I’m just coming down from the mountain and about to enter our old apple orchard up ahead.
Armstrong Valley Farm stuff
I stopped by my brother’s garden to see what was growing. This is kale. It’s supposed to be good stuff, but I haven’t acquired a taste for it yet, so I don’t eat it often.
I went by and said hi to his chickens. Of course they just wanted something to eat.
I went on home where I went next door to check on some more of his garden. His broccoli looks good. I have some in my latest vegetable soup.
Chair hopped
I puttered around the yard for the rest of the day. I didn’t get much done, mostly just chair hopped and that was my day for a good one.
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.
