I was sitting in my yard thinking about going up into the forest to do some trail work when my brother Barry showed up with his dirt bike.
Of course the trail work was put off for now. We sat around shooting the bull for awhile, then took off for the hills on our dirt bikes.
It wasn’t long before I realized I’d forgotten my camera which I seem to be doing more lately for some reason.
Downed trees
I thought I’d cut all the downed trees that were across the roads out of the way, but the first road we took, we ran into a new one that was downed. They just keep fallen. It’s not really that strange as when you have a forest with thousands of trees growing in it on steep hillsides, some of them are bound to fall down.
Drink of water
We turned around and went another way, stopping at our spring for a fresh drink of water.
We ran into one more downed tree across the road during our ride.
We usually ride for about two hours and cover most of the roads up there at least once.
Blown up house
Oh, we did ride over to a neighbor’s place that blew up a couple months ago from a likely propane leak during the night. The place was completely burned down and was a mess. There were three older guys living in the house and one of them didn’t make it.
Break spot
We spent quite awhile sitting on top of the highest hill taking a break. The day was so nice we spent more time than usual up there.
Good ride
After a good ride we returned to my house. I was tired out so had a bit of a nap while Barry took off for his place.
The rest of the day, I spent chair hopping around the yard with the chickens, mostly just sitting around enjoying the day.
So do you ever hear when one of those trees falls down?
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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.
You know that old saying………
So do you ever hear when one of those trees falls down?