Marty showed up around noon and after a good bull session we put some tools on the quad runner and rode up into the hills to do a bit of work.
We stopped at this spring for a cup of water on the way up.
We took this trail through the redwood trees and stopped here for a short break on the wooden logs.
Then we headed on up the trail, taking our time.
I waited for Marty to catch up here and then we headed up that road.
A bit of work
We didn’t get far before we got to this downed tree across the road. We had a chainsaw to make short work of that tree.
Enjoying the seats and the view
We continued on up to this overlook where I was working yesterday carving some seats into the hillside. Today, we sat and enjoyed the view on those seats for a good bit.
We were headed to the ridge top to do some more work, but needed to go by this spring to collect the cam card there. Marty got a drink of water while I retrieved the cam card.
Headed back down the hill
Before we got started again, Marty said he wasn’t feeling well, so we decided to head back to my place, down the hill.
We stopped at this spring to get the other cam card.
There wasn’t much on that card, except this bat.
And this truck went by going down the hill on the cam. I have no idea who it was. They had a trim saw in the back. I think they may have been up on the top road doing some trimming and took the wrong turn to get back down to the state park.
Shortly, they came back up the hill on the cam and then shortly came back down the hill. I think they might have been lost and were looking for a way out as if you get on the property, there are roads everywhere with no signs so it’s easy to get lost real quick. Someone must of let them out of the gate at the bottom as it was locked when they went by.
We made it back to my house and Marty took off for home. I headed in the house for a nap and something to eat.
Later in the day, I ate some more fresh prunes and some mulberries. More of them are starting to turn black now as they are starting to ripen up more.
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.
