It was a busy day but I still squeezed in time for a ride. Early, 8am, we had to take the dog to the vet for his annual shots. After that, and breakfast, I went over to our other house and took my saws-all and cut up the old patio furniture so it would fit in the trash can. Then I swept up the patio and the driveway.
I'm in deep into a new art project, more cyanotypes, but experimenting with using paper negatives. I take the original image and reverse it to negative using the computer, tweak the brightness and contrast, and then send it to the laser printer. To make the paper semi-transparent I coat it with canola oil, wiping off the excess. The it gets placed on a sheet of watercolor paper that I have previously coated with cyanotype sensitizer. I cover that with a sheet of glass and then expose it to UV light using the lightbox I built. Each exposure takes about 25 minutes. Then the paper gets washed in an acid bath followed by a water wash. The results are quite satisfying and I plan to continue in this direction, possibly trying to print from drafting vellum.
While that was going on I put together two loaves of raisin bread and left the dough to rise.
By the time I was free it was almost 3pm. It was warm, upper 70s and off I went. I rode Main Street through Billings Heights as I did on the previous ride, going north on Hwy 87. When I got to the turnoff for Old Divide Road I took it, like I did the other day. Once back to 87 I continued north to the intersection with Hwy 12 where I turned west.
My goal was to ride Hwy 381, AKA Goulding Creek Road. I saw online that it was paved for a distance and it look interesting. It was. It's full of curves and hills until the pavement ended after 5 or 6 miles. Here I am at the end of the paving.
I rode back and continued west on Hwy 12, looking for another road but never saw it. I need to ride it again and put its location in the navigation software. No problem, it was getting late and I turned south at Lavina and set the cruise to 72 MPH and rode back to Billings.
While it was warm, there was very little wind so the ride was quite pleasant.
I pulled video from the dash cam but I learned a lesson: it's spring so stop occasionally and clean the lens on the camera. Lots of bugs today. I suppose I could use the camera viewer on the screen but I'm still trying to get the hand of this. Here's what I have but not sure I'll go after the rest.
It was a 133 mile day.
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