I started out the day working on the old bridge repairs. I thought I would only work on it for a few hours and then go for a dirt bike ride up in the hills,……………But.
Around 4, I was still working on it and thinking I need to get going on that dirt bike ride as it was misting lightly now.
I finally got done what I wanted to get done today around five and put the tools away and quit for the day.
I let the chickens out in the front yard to graze. I noticed they were in the periwinkles grazing away as I rode by on the dirt bike headed for the hills. I did put on my rain jacket, just in case.
Drink at the spring
I headed up the hill and stopped at our main spring to get a drink of water and to see how it was doing. With all the rain we’ve had this year, it was doing real well. That’s a two inch pipe running pretty full, at least for now. It will slow down a bit as the summer progresses.
Ridge top view
I made it up to the ridge top and this was what it looked like. Misty, just little tiny drops.
I rode on and had to stop here to move that little fir tree out of my way.
And rode on up this old road on my cousin’s place, headed for the top.
This was the view at the ridge top. The mist is starting to turn to a light drizzle so I’m thinking of working my way home.
As I rode on down the hill a bit, the drizzle turned to a mist again as I rode on through here.
This downed old rotten tree stopped me on this road. I turned around and went another way.
I was pretty sure the Talking Trees Trail was clear so I took that. The trees only talk when the wind blows hard enough which it wasn’t doing today. Instead it was nice and peaceful.
Low roar
I stopped here to check out the creek over to the right. As I stopped the bike, I heard a low roar from the creek so I followed the sound and checked out what was making the noise.
It turned out to be a small waterfall in the creek.
Back home
I made it home. The mist had stopped as I parked the dirt bike in the shed. It’s filling up fast.
I sat in one of my chairs here and enjoyed the evening.
Oh. Water from the sky and water along the trail. So nice. The spring has me filled with envy. But as you actually appreciate it….well, I’ll just have to get over it. My idea of heaven though.
Nice trails to ride. There’s nothing like sitting under cover of the shed you just built, listening to the rain.
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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.
Oh. Water from the sky and water along the trail. So nice. The spring has me filled with envy. But as you actually appreciate it….well, I’ll just have to get over it. My idea of heaven though.
Nice shed!
The Talking Tree Trail looks so inviting.
Nice shed!
The Talking Tree Trail looks so inviting.
Nice trails to ride. There’s nothing like sitting under cover of the shed you just built, listening to the rain.