Autumn!

It's autumn here! I love autumn. It's quite possibly my favorite season. I love the leaves changing colors and the crisp autumn smell in the air. The bright, clear-blue autumn skies and the misty, foggy mornings. Mittens and apples and cozy warm sweaters.

And I love how having little ones around makes even something like the changing seasons new again, seeing it all through my girls' eyes. I notice so many things I'd never thought about or realized before. For example, did you know that there must be some sort of fly that lays eggs inside acorns? And that if you, say, have a 1 and 3 year old who collect acorns in buckets and carry them home to make a collection, the eggs will hatch in the night and you will wind up with little wriggling maggots all over your living room floor?

You really don't want to know how I know that.

But I really do love autumn!

Today I'm over at Writer Unboxed, blogging about ways of incorporating backstory into your novel. Stop by!

I have a blog post I've been meaning to write all week all about Isolde's relationship with her grandmother Morgan and Morgan's voice in Dark Moon of Avalon. Complete with research and thoughts on the Celtic view of spirituality and life after death and the Otherworld.

And instead I've got maggots and a redirect to Writer Unboxed. Hmmm. That may say something about my life as a writer if only I think about it long enough. But no time now. I've got to go for a walk with my girls in the crisp autumn air and watch Bella climb trees and crunch leaves under our feet. I think we'll leave the acorns outside, though.