Please visit my online stores, Big Shadows for noir art and attire,
and Lazy River Design Works for everything else.
About WhyTheAlgarve
Briefly, I'm a 53 year-old husband of one, father of two, living in Vancouver, BC, (burnaby, really) currently a stay at home Dad, worked for over twenty years as a scenic artist/painter, enamoured with Portugal for a long list of reasons, two years in recovery as of Dec 24, 2021 (hey, Bill!), and utterly energized by a personal creative renaissance that motivates me to start my day around 4 a.m. so that I can get as much as time working with images as possible. Of course, being up that early also ensures I am awake no matter what time our youngest starts banging on the wall when he wakes up. Two birds.
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There are a number of posts that discuss my personal life, none more so than Too Much Information.
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Other posts that talk about this site and me:
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- The Plan and Design Developments
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- Turning a Corner: The Beneficial Effects of Relentless Jolliness
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That's our oldest son, Alex, btw, pictured here as a toddler Evil Genius.