Day 25 Ketchikan,,,Land of Much Kitch and Lots of Rain

Today was the first day in which the weather did not cooperate. Rain! Rain!and More Rain! And in the rain I went for a walk to the old part of town and visited Married Mans Trail. This has a bit of history itself in that it was the way the married men of the town snuck into the brothels without their wives and family and friends seeing them. Today it has other uses. The salmon stream is there and there were hundreds of salmon sitting below the bridge waiting to climb up the stream to spawn and eventually die. I looked over the bridge and all you see is salmon, salmon and more salmon. There is an art gallery there that I visit every time I am here because I love the work of this one artist. Well low and behold he was in the gallery and we got to chatting. His work is mainly stained glass and fusion glass which is what I now work with from time to time. His name is Marvin Oliver and if you want to see some of his work you can go to www. marvinoliver.com . He showed me slides of some of his works and they were phenomenal. He has a work that he created for Seattle Childrens’ Hospital that weighed 7 tons when it was completed. It was one of the many whales that he creates in his other artwork. I must say the conversation was wonderful and I learned a lot from him about fusion glass. I may have even found the solution to the problem we were encountering back at the college studio. Time sure is flying and I am wishing I could stay longer. Maybe Alaska will be somewhere in my future even though the friars have never been up here before it sure would be a nice place to live, I have already picked out my island but the only problem is that it is under water 60% of the day!