Welcome back, @manouche! I'm looking forward to your creative blogs. I remember your tightrope walker and your wonderful shadow picture along the water. There are communities here I think you will really enjoy. Let me start with Shadow Hunters. I know some really nice people who blog there (@shasta is one of them). There are art communities, such as alien art. It's not something I'm good at so I don't know much about those. I do know something about the Ink Well. I've been helping out over there for a couple of months. It is a very small community that welcomes short stories from anyone. Some of our writers are really accomplished and some are just learning the ropes. All are welcome and supported. That's the nature of the community. A few rules govern the posts, but these are obvious (like, no violence against women or girls).

Finally, there is one blogger on Hive who is particularly nice and interesting, @borjan. Follow his blog and you will have a very pleasant, often novel, experience. He is an artist who loves animals and nature.

The key to networking with people and making contacts here is to start getting familiar with some of the communities.

Well, that's it, my welcome back. You have been missed :)