I hadn’t been up to my neighbors that live high up on a hillside in quite some time, so I got on my bike and rode on up there. i had to stop here to get through a gate and then rode on up this road.
This was the view from the gate.
And this was the view as I approached their house.
Solar project
I found the neighbors home, but they were deep in a project that had to get done. They were replacing their solar batteries and their solar panels so they didn’t have much time to visit. I hung around for a bit then took off for home. I did get away with some fresh oranges off their tree.
Other neighbors
So now that I had some extra time, I thought I’d go visit my Cousin and gave them a ride around their place in my rig, but just as I arrived there, another person arrived right behind me, just as I pulled into their place. They’d planned to do some target shooting, so I left there and headed on over to the trail I was working on and did some work.
Trail work
I walked out the trail to the spot I was working on and took a break. This was the part of the trail I was widening out today.
It took about an hour to widen out this part of the trail.
I put a bit of leaf mulch on the trail to finish it up. That was enough to get some exercise.
I went on home and chair hopped around the yard with my chickens.
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.
