Barry showed up for a ride this morning so we took off from my house around noon.
We stopped here at the pond to collect the game cam pictures. I picked up all the game cards but nothing of interest, only the standard stuff, foxes and deer and one coon.
We stopped here so Barry could trim back some brush that was getting in the way of our ride.
Time for a drink of water at one of the springs.
Eventually we made it up to our break area at the top of the hill.
The sky from that spot as we sat to enjoy the view and rest up.
Another spot Barry wanted to trim back some brush so it was easier to get by.
Barry was trimming this back so we could pass by when I noticed a lady bug climbing up my shirt.
It’s a little late for lady bugs to be out, but it made me think of a long time ago when we had a spot where thousands of lady bugs were gathered in some small Christmas trees as kids. They disappeared likely because all us kids messed with them.
Then I saw about a dozen of them on my pants leg. Ah ha. Now where did I hit a bush and get them on me. We back tracked to look for them and finally found them.
Lady Bugs
They were in a different spot then they were a long time ago and this is the first time we’ve seen them since.
See them on this little fir tree.
Maybe this will help. They don’t eat the trees, just seem to be hibernating on them or something.
Some more of them.
We looked around to just see how many there were, Lots of them on these weeds.
They are hard to see but there are lots of them on these dead stickers.
That was a rare find.
More noise
Back home I took off my muffler or opened it up. These bikes are very quiet, but we were wondering what they would sound like with the guts out of the mufflers. It turned out to be much noisier, like a dirt bike otta sound. I’ll try it out this way for one ride and likely put it back the way it was as being older, lots of noise isn’t so important as it was in the old days when we were kids rising hell.
The sounds of youth.
Made me think of clothespinned spokes with baseball cards and riding my bike.
That’s the closest I can get.
Cool ladybug find.
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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.
havent seen a swarm of ladybugs in years. used to see them along austin creek. great trout bait!
The sounds of youth.
Made me think of clothespinned spokes with baseball cards and riding my bike.
That’s the closest I can get.
Cool ladybug find.