I was going to go shopping today, but Barry came by for a bike ride up into the forest, so I did that instead.
We rode around for a couple of hours going all over the place, then headed up to our break area at the top of the ridge.
We picked up the trail cam cards on our way around the place.
Lots of smoke in the sky from somewhere, maybe some controlled burns.
After a good ride Barry took off for home and I had a nap. That bike riding in the hills gives us a good work out.
I needed gas for the motor bikes, so I went to town and got some.
Forest work
Late in the day I got back on the bike and rode on up into the forest to do some trail work.
I stopped here to move some of this brush I cut up the other day off the road.
My back wasn’t liking it so I only moved some of it.
Trail work
I made it over to the trail I’ve been working on widening.
This is the part I planned to work on today.
I widened out up to the root on the tree, then sat down for a break in my chair.
Leaners
This trail is called Talking Trees Trail because of a bunch of the trees leaning over against each other. When the wind blows, they rub on each other making talking sounds.
I got this much of the trail mostly done, but not quite and I wanted to finish this part up before dark.,,,,,,,,,,,,But.
I almost made it, but the dark beat me so I quit and headed for home.
Trail cam pictures
There were lots of foxes and the spotted skunk and lots of deer.
Here’s one of the deer.
A couple of crows getting a drink and a bath in our pond.
And there were quite a few wild pigeons dong the same.
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.
