I noticed I had a little avocado tree seedling that came up under my big avocado tree.
Planted and protected
It seemed like a good idea to plant it in it’s own spot by the big avocado tree so I prepped the ground for it and got some fence wire to go around it to protect it from the chickens.
Ride on the Talking Trees Trail
After that I was out of energy so I napped and took it easy until late afternoon when I got it going for a quad runner ride through the redwood forest. I wanted to check out the Talking Trees Trail to see how it faired through the big storm that dropped 15 inches on us overnight.
I checked the gas and took off up the trail at a leisurely pace. Everything was nice and clean and lush after the rain.
I rode up through here.
And down through here on the trail throwing things off the trail that had fallen in the winds.
Trail work
Like these limbs that fell off a tree that I had to stop and remove to pass on by.
Peaceful spot
I stopped here for a break and to sit and enjoy the forest for a bit. It’s real peaceful in this spot.
I stopped here at the waterfall but there wasn’t much water in the falls yet.
Road work
I made it to the end of the trail and continued up this road and had to stop and remove these small branches to get by.
Trees down
Once past that one I ran into this one that was too big for me to move so I turned around and went another way.
There were quite a few trees down on the road so I had to turn around often.
Our spring
I made it up to our spring and had a drink of water and checked it’s flow rate. Almost two gallons a minute up a little over a gallon after the big storm for a total of just under two gallons a minute.
Break time
I continued up that road to the top of the hill where I parked and enjoyed a break on the log rounds for a bit.
Forgot something
I’d left a tool on the Talking Trees trail so I headed back over there and went down it to pick up the tool.
Damned up creek
From there I headed towards home but got stopped by this damned up creek that was a bit deep for the quad runner to cross without me getting real wet and possibly killing the machine in the middle.
So I turned around and went another way.
Cleaned this culvert of debris
I stopped at this culvert to clear the debris to help keep it from getting plugged up during the next storm.
End of the day
By the time I got home it was 6:30 and I was tired out from all the work so I rested up a bit before going out and shutting the chickens in for the night.
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.
