It started raining again early this morning and when I got it going it was still showering. I checked the wind at Jenner and it was windy so I decided to stay home and get some stuff done.
Fruit trees to be pruned
I still have a number of fruit trees that need pruning so I got the tools out for that.
I started with these trees, a plum, a apricot and some some apple trees.
I’d been pruning away and was about ready for a break when I saw some one come through my gate on a bicycle like they owned the place.
John shows up
It turned out to be John. He came by to shoot the bull and see if I wanted to go down the river tomorrow from Monte Rio to Jenner. Seemed like a good idea to me.
Bike repairs
He was having some trouble with the bike’s back brake so we looked at it to see if we cold adjust it. After taking it apart we found that a plastic part that held the return spring had broken so he needed a new part.
After awhile John left to go back home and watch his new beagle puppy to relieve his wife from the task.
Continued pruning the trees
I finished up where I was pruning and then moved to these trees, a fruiting black Persian mulberry tree and some apple trees.
Almost done
I started working on them between rain showers which gave me a break every once in awhile. I had to get the ladder out for this tree.
Do you know what blooming daffodils mean
During one of my breaks while sitting in a chair in the yard I noticed something yellow out in the yard, so went over to investigate.
Do you know what these blooming flowers mean? They are daffodils.
When these flowers bloom it means Spring is on it’s way.
Thinking about the cycle carrier
The sun went behind the mountains while I was finishing up pruning the trees. I put the tools away and sat down by my van and studied what I need to do to the cycle carrier.
I sat around there checking things out until the day started to cool down just before dark which meant it was time to go in for the day.
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.
