For four months this fall we lived on the brilliant paradise of Whidbey Island.  We arrived by ferry in August, the perfect, late summer, Puget Sound weather surrounding us.  Warm, dry days, huge, blue sky, sunlight for hours and hours and hours.  The kids went back to school in September and I got busy writing and learning.  Since both kids have been in school full time I have taken every advantage of the long spaces of quiet to work.  Writing every day, learning about blog design and promotion, and practicing my photography.