The Late Middle:

With plans on the horizon of migrating to full-time fine art and building a studio, it was now or never if I wanted to return to the West Coast. My long time buddy, Larry Hafemeister, had dreamed of Alaska, so we planned a trip West and discovered Quadra, a 25 mile long, 5 mile wide island one mile (and a ferry ride) east of Campbell River, a town of about 70,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It’s right in the path of the boats headed up the “inland passage’ to Alaska, and with it’s unusually temperate microclimate, and a phenomenon known as a “cloud shadow,” is protected from the rains experienced by Seattle and Vancouver. The hurdle of obtaining Canadian Permanent Residency status was a two-year ordeal, but served as an impetus to migrate our 20-year friendship into marriage on December 23, 2004. “About time” was my Dad’s comment!