When I went out the door this morning I found my brother Barry out there getting ready to go for a dirt bike ride. I hadn’t eaten yet so I told him to come back in about an hour and I’d go for a ride with him.
I got the dirt bike out and joined him for his second ride.
Checked out some forest fire rehab areas
We rode on up into the hills and through these fire break areas. We were checking to see how things were holding up as far as erosion control. We haven’t had any real big rain storms and things were all looking pretty good.
Not all play
Riding dirt bikes in the hills isn’t all play as there’s always some work to do, especially when the winds knock down a lot of trees. Barry is looking to see if we could move this one or not as they are pretty heavy. We decided just to move it enough to get by it and we barely could do that. There seems to be a never ending supply of downed trees on the roads in the forest.
Top of the World
We rode up to the Top of the World for a break. I live in this forest just off to to left.
Resting up
Barry wasted no time to find a good resting spot and I soon joined him.
This is a good relaxing spot so we stayed awhile shooting the bull.
This is what the top of the hill looks like.
Off we go
After a good break we saddled up and took off down the hill for some more riding.
We rode down this main road a couple of miles over to the state park area. It’s a good road and one can really get hauling on it.
Barry is a retired surveyor so he’s always looking for corner markers and property lines. He’s pointing to where he couldn’t find a park corner marker when we were looking for some real old roads coming off the hills, likely the ones our great grandfather would of used.
From there we headed back up the hill and towards home the long way.
At the bottom of the hill we have to go through this locked gate to cross the main highway over to my place. If you are smart you let the other guy get to the gate first so he has to deal with the lock.
Barry loaded up his dirt bike on his truck and went on home.
Enjoying the day
I napped a bit then went outside and did some chicken stuff and mostly sat around the rest of the day chair hopping.
More daffodils are starting to bloom. I have quite a few daffodils scattered around the yard and very soon they all will be blooming.
You mention your great grandfather. Mine bought our place behind Berry’s mill in 1876. He left us a lot of roads too. I wonder if they knew each other.
-Tom, the fisherman at the Monte Rio ramp who wasn’t as interested in your chickens.
What a fun ride. I know that old gate trick … from riding horses and moving cattle. Your daffodils are beautiful! What a nice way to brighten up your day!!
What a great view from the Top of the World. I can see why you enjoy going up there for a rest.
I can see who the smart guy is at the gate. :)
Daffodils!! Oh my, such a beautiful sight for us wintering folk. Thank 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.
You mention your great grandfather. Mine bought our place behind Berry’s mill in 1876. He left us a lot of roads too. I wonder if they knew each other.
-Tom, the fisherman at the Monte Rio ramp who wasn’t as interested in your chickens.
What a fun ride. I know that old gate trick … from riding horses and moving cattle. Your daffodils are beautiful! What a nice way to brighten up your day!!
What a great view from the Top of the World. I can see why you enjoy going up there for a rest.
I can see who the smart guy is at the gate. :)
Daffodils!! Oh my, such a beautiful sight for us wintering folk. Thank you.