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3D
shadow box of a little girl with dog and tricycle looking out over the
fence at a woman riding a bicycle and thinking someday I want a big
girls bike. $65
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Bikes are still on my mind as snow has not come to this part of Idaho yet.
Our
ski resort is losing $100, 000 a day! The snow markers register- nada!
so what am I doing? Riding my bike in January. I got a new mountain bike
for Christmas which I rode yesterday- 16 miles, and lots of climbing!
There were a few patches of ice and mud but overall it felt like a
spring day. The temp. registered 52 on my bike computer!
I was never much of a bike rider until my late 40's when I got my first bike. My first big ride was the "Hotter Than Hell"
in Wichita Falls Tx. 60 miles in 112 degree heat! Since moving to Idaho
four years ago, I got my very own mountain bike at age 50 (the previous 2
years I was riding my husbands hand me down) and am now registered for
my first mountain bike race coming up in April!
Maybe I was that little girl looking over that fence, it just took me a
while to get there... those of you who have followed my blog for a while
may recognize the red trike in the shadow box. It was left mysteriously
on my doorstep a year ago, I found out recently it was a fellow artist
and neighbor who had left it there. So for a year I have been making a
little pile of papers and ephemera related to bikes around the red
trike.
Tuesday at Studio Em was the time to make it all
come together. First I went through my little pile and divided up the
ephemera into 2 piles, one that was more related to mountain biking and
one that was more related to casual riding around town. The mountain
biking ephemera will be for a future piece.
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| side panel collage |
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me on my new bike in January and no snow!
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| Other side panel collage |
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