I tended the chickens and worked on removing some more sediment from the old well and then I wasn’t sure what to do with myself today.
While I was filling up on cherries I decided to go on up the hill on the dirt bike and go for a little hike to check an area out.
Redwood forest hike
I checked the gas and it had enough of that so off I went up into the hills and pulled into this spot in a canyon to explore down below this area.
I went through these smaller redwood trees picking my way through.
And through this big fern patch.
I stopped here by this creek for a break for a bit. It’s nice and peaceful here, no sounds except from the forest.
Heading back
And then I hiked through this area to get back to the dirt bike.
Fire break hike
Then I rode the dirt bike up to his spot which was above the area I just hiked into and checked things out from this angle going for another short hike down to where I’d hiked earlier. This is one of the fire breaks from the recent forest fire, but thankfully the fire didn’t make it into this area which was nice.
Armstrong Valley Farm strawberry patch
I was tired out from the hiking so I let the dirt bike do the work and went for a ride around the hills before heading back and stopping at my brother’s strawberry patch. Hey Patsy, if you were a bit closer you’d be welcome to some strawberries. :O)
Peeps
Back home I had a short nap then went out to see how the peeps were fairing. This is the peep feeding area where only they can get so there’s no competition from the larger birds.
Raspberries
The raspberries are starting to ripen faster now so there’ll soon be more than I can eat which is always a good thing. I ate all of these ones and a lot more of them as they go down easy.
Loquats
I also ate some of these.
Loquats. They are an interesting fruit.
And the last thing I did was work on getting some more of that sediment out of the old well.
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.
