My brother Barry was in the front yard again with his truck and dirt bike. I was planning to ride up into the hills today to visit a neighbor anyway so I joined him.
We rode up to where we cut some small trees up the other day and finished moving the brush off the road.
The brush is off on the road to the right, getting ready to remove it.
We just about got the brush cleared.
Ride on
Once that was done we took off up into the hills for a dirt bike ride.
Mushrooms
We headed up on the ridge tops to this place the forest fire recently burned. Barry wanted to look for mushrooms. We walked around and looked but there were none to be found.
Neighbor visit
Then we took off for the neighbor I wanted to talk with. We found Jim home so I talked with him a bit on how to not have his roads washed out as what most of the neighbors have been doing up here is not a good practice and their roads are washing out badly. He was listening so we will meet soon to discuss how to do it right and maybe he can teach the other neighbors.
He had to do something so we cut the bull session short and took off continuing our ride.
We stopped often to remove things off the trail like this small stick.
Break time
After riding around a bit we headed up to the Top of the World to take a break. Yes, Barry is napping on the ground there.
Guerneville
Then we rode over to another neighbor’s place and this is the view of the town of Guerneville from there. The town is in the back there a bit hard to see because of the trees and the hill.
Spring area
We continued to ride all over our place and headed for home after that but detoured up to this spring to check something out.
While there I noticed two pipes coming into this area but couldn’t remember where one of them came from, which spring. Barry says walk it and see so I headed out through here.
Remembering
After going a short distance I remembered what spring this was and where it was so I turned back which meant I didn’t have to go up the steep part I remembered was here.
One more thing to checkout
We had one more place to checkout and that was back where we started where we cleaned up some brush as we wanted to check something out. See Barry over there to the right looking at something.
It’s not a rock
He’s looking at this big rock only it’s not a big rock and is usually worth a lot more money than a big rock, Maybe even big money, in the hundreds or more. It’s a big redwood burl and one this big is rather rare.
The next time I come by with the dozer I’ll push it out of there so we can get a better look at it.
Long ride
We make it back to my house. That was one of the longest dirt bike rides we’ve done. We usually do about 2 hours but today we did almost five hours. Riding the dirt bikes in these hills really loosens up the ol body and improves one’s side balance a lot.
Barry took off for home and I spent some time chair hopping and resting in the yard.
But first I had to let the chickens out as it was late and they wanted to get into the front yard which they like a lot.
Happy chickens
There they go, happy chickens.
It wasn’t long before the day cooled and it started to get dark so I shut up the chickens and went in for the day.
That burl is a real find. Hope it’s in good shape. I hear of people looking for mushrooms all the time, but I would probably get the ones that kill you.
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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.
That burl is a real find. Hope it’s in good shape. I hear of people looking for mushrooms all the time, but I would probably get the ones that kill you.