I am back home, safe and sound after long hours of a bus trip to Kuala Lumpur, an overnight flight to Narita, an 11 hour flight to Chicago and finally on to Philadelphia, where my best girl Oona was waiting for me. Sister Lisa and her friend Jonathan came down from NY, Jack came from work, and Leo and my two exquisite grand children met us all for a festive reunion dinner. I feel awful about abandoning this site and felt I ought to leave you with images to explain why I have oddly fallen in love with a place rather than a person, as most people do. I will load some quirky photos that will give a sense of what it is that I love so about this island paradise.
There are peculiar angles, color juxtapositions and just funky combinations that make my head spin. If I could convey the tastes, the scents and the sounds, I would do it so that you would understand, but I must rely solely on the images. Bear with me.
There are cats in markets, 
signs and lines that evoke dreamscapes - well, maybe architecture dreams. There are lights from the shores of Penang and Butterworth as the ferry shuttles from side to side and images of worship and belief hidden in corners and down alleys. There are coffee shops and medicine shops, food hawkers and fruit sellers, little ladies in little l
anes , mosques and temples and 
rickshaws as
well. There are secret vistas and visions, and you cannot miss a moment or you will miss an angle, a color or a heart's tug.I've not even begun to show or describe the other senses! But
now that I'm home, I can dream about going back to tend and renovate the house I am buying in Island Glades on the island of Penang.
Come visit any time and do check out my friend Pearly's website called My Island Penang, Pearl of the Orient.
