FROM SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA

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Home, Sweet Home...

SCOTTSDALE May 17, 2008 - This has been one of the longer trips by my standards - 18 days.  I'd gone around the world several times before in less time than that (see "'Round the World Again," July 2007).  So I was very happy to come home.  A delightful crew of the Delta flight from JFK also made the last leg of my trip very enjoyable.

All of my bushes, flowers, birds and bees looked very happy and very healthy, as you can see from the above photos.  The two left shots are of some bushes in the front, the right two in the back of my property. Even my giant cactus (it's grown to about 9 feet now) has procreated while I was gone.  I found two flowers about to open, and one on the ground (meaning, it had already done its job, and now a new arm will grow in its place).

My roses were starting to look tired.  The heat does that to them every year at about this time.  But they did save their last hurrah for my homecoming (left).  But my greatest joy was opening up my suitcase and finding that all of my Montenegro and Belgrade souvenirs and mountain and river relics had survived the journey, including the customs and TSA inspectors (middle).  Nothing was damaged.  Everything arrived intact.  In fact, the sand from the bottom of the Djurdjevic Tara river was still moist, as was the soil from the site of my Shamanic Ceremony on the Djurdjevic Mtn.

When I packed all these things in Montenegro, I did address Al-Khadir/St. George, and turned the fate of all these articles over to Him.  As always, my patron saint came through.  Guess that's even less surprising now that his own icon was among the relics I brought home with me.  :-) You can see it in the right photo at its new place in my home.

And that's all she wrote from this trip...

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