The community performance center in Lendava, Slovenia. The front yard was still under construction.
Another view of the community center in Lendava.
The church in the middle of Lendava.
The view from the castle in Lendava.
Grape vineyards - Lendava, Slovenia
A pretty Slovenian beetle.
A huge rose garden behind someone's house in Lendava.
The vegetable and flower garden in what was at one time a very elegant old house. Lendava
Sandy and Leslie taking a welcome break from the conference.
Sylvie and Andrea hanging out on the main street, at the cafe.
Downtown Lendava
Arja, Ana, Andrea and Sylvie having fun at the cafe.
Leslie, Arja, Ana and Andrea - I wish I could remember what was said.
Fun
The church overlooking Lendava.
The castle on the hill, church steeple and community center in Lendava.
Groups 1 & 4 exploring Lendava with Marko.
Sylvie looking beautiful, as always.
The gang.
More of the gang.
Ana looked beautiful and played spectacularly.
The holy tree behind the Synagogue.
Group #1 when we finally started doing something and stopped arguing.
Creating our mandala. Leslie writing, Drago, Deiter, Achim, Maria Vittoria, Olivier, Wolfgang and Vjeko in the foreground looking on.
Bettina, Peter, Sylvie, Vjeko and Leslie writing.
Marko
Viewing the work after the final presentations.
Everyone is releaved the presentations are over, expecially Silvy - great smile!
The strip of land in far eastern Slovenia between the rivers that border Hungry and Croatia.
A place where people are working with the elemental beings and nature spirits. A very healthy, active place.
Beautiful covered bridge over a footpath.
Marko explaining the plan. Right before we did the dance and created a crop circle in the grass.
A hot summer day - a few of the conference participants.
Salvatore checking out the cosmogram.
We need bridges like this in the US.
The lake on the border with Hungry. Looking toward the beach. The water was very different than most we saw, cloudy.
A foot bridge over the stream.
Taking a break from the conference, relaxing in the shade with everyone.
Arja, Ana and Marika in the center.
More of us.
Still more of us.
Taking time to listen to Marko, Ana and Arja.
Yes, Andrej and Nebojsa, I see the family resemblance!
Doing a meditation to connect with the water and this place.
We weren't the only group visting this place - a local VW club's picnic.
More VW's
Some of the VW's.
Every town has their alters to Mary or Christ as you enter the town.
Not exactly the same plants we grow in Vermont.
Sacred Geometry was used throughout the design and building of this church.
The ceiling with plates made by local families working as potters.
The bottoms of the pillars.
The tops of the pillars the church is built on.
Joseph & Jesus.
Notice the pottery jars hanging around the room. We did a meditation here.
The bigger view, alchemical symbols scattered around, the Templar cross carved into pillars - very interesting place.
The unusual dome on this church.
Your typical “neat as a pin” town street. Each yard has a garden, most with their own grape vines.
A lovely old barn, showing the old brick construction and ventilation.
The local winery is just down the street.
Two churches side by side, the old one which is not used much anymore but exquisite, and the new dull one.
The bell tower of the old church.
As you enter the church the Madonna greets you.
The ancient frescoes and architecture of the old church. We did toning here.
Notice the woman being tortured, she was probably Divinely connected without being a member of the church.
Angels and Saints fill the walls and ceilings.
Beasts and birds too.
Detail of the window which is above the alter.
Dining under the tent at the Congress - Andrea, Ana & Tadeja at the right.
Janey and Brian - beautiful!
Salvatore entertaining us before dinner.
Sylvie and Andrea trying to get the moist salt out of the shaker - at least they found some salt.
Gypsy children dancing while their families played.
The kids performing before we took over the dance floor and kept dancing for hours in the heat and humidity.
The North American gang - except we couldn't find Elyse. back row l to r - Andrea, Brian, Gene, Leslie, Lindsy, Sandy, Deter. below l to r - Gail, Andrej, Wayne, Janey, Marianne, Elizabeth, Sylvie
Happy to be in Slovenia!
Lendava - cosmogram in the park.
Some official building in Lendava.
Another beautiful, official building in Lendava. Love the architectural details. Look at that gate. Great roofs.
Here's another Lendava beauty.
Another Lendava church.
Jerusalem - where the Templars were invited to establish a community and church.
Jerusalem view of the vineyards from the church.
Another Jerusalem view. How beautiful can it get!
The old and new parts of the church that was founded by the Templars in Jerusalem.
Anover piece of the building.
The Templar cross planted on the ground in front of an old house.
Happy to be out of the bus, overwhelmed by the beauty of this country.
Our travel family.
Marko telling us about his amazing country. Gene looking very happy!
Detail on an old house.
The narthex of the church, the old frescoes.
The Madonna of the Coat - she holds all of humanity under her coat. Gothic carving. Sculpture that used to be outside the doorway with elemental beings on either side. Angels hold her cape and a multitude of faces look up at her, a few look out at us, while she remains to be crowned.
The black Madonna and child.
Wow!
A stone at Renate's home.
Renate's studio and house courtyard area.
Renate's back yard, mountain top in the clouds. These Alps are said to contain a slppeing gnome and his army waiting to be awakened.
The view from Renate's back yard - the Alps!
Renate's roses and phlox.
Turning their faces toward the sun in this Alpine valley.
Exquisite colors.
I don't know if you could find a more perfect place for a home than here. We added stars to the blue sky in ther dining room.
Andrej, what's that grin about?
The sunrise view from our balcony the first morning we were on tour. The corwn chakra of Slovenia.
Not a bad view to wake up to.
Look at how clear the water is, you can see the fish swimming. This was a man made lake in a recreation area.
The place with the 3 holy islands. The whole area used to be a lake, but back in Eleven something an earthquake opened the land and drained it. It is now fertile pastureland. We say a heard of cows hanging out on one of the holy islands.
View from one of the holy islands. This was the first place Marko said he ever experienced Geomancy, perceiving the subtle levels of existance. Arja was just a baby (1960's) and Marika and Marko had traveled here on holiday.
The threefoldness - a basic concept of our travels, 3 holy islands, the black, red and white paths as in the story of Parzival. The grail stream, Templars.
A storage hut - but look at how beautiful the detail is.
Another hut.
A typical house in this part of Slovenia.
A Linden tree near the castle in Bled - holding the energy for the place.
Another Linden tree at Bled.
Are those tree beings looking down at us?
The Virgin Mary's chapel on the island at Bled as seen from the castle.
Another view of the island.
Gardens for the tourists at Bled.
A view of the castle at Bled.
Another view of the castle.
The island at Bled as we're approaching.
Water lilies, ducks and fish in Bled.
Gene, Marianne, Lindsey, Gail, Andrej and Brian at Bled.
A few of us, looking for the rest of the group.
William, Alexandra, Marko and Gene at Bled.
A duck and fish in the beautiful, clear water of Bled, it really is this color.
A view from the water.
The sacred Holy Well on the island at Bled.
The 100 pilgrimage stairs up to Mary's chapel on the island at Bled. Of course we should be going up on our knees to do it right.
48 steps up, a resteing place with the Holy Virgin.
At the top. We did a meditation in the area between the bell tower and church.
Wayne in front of the belfry.
Some of the artifacts found in the church on display in the church window.
We row away from the Holy Island.
The new church in the village at Bled with the dramatic mountain scene behind.
The island in a haze from town.
A pilgrimage church on the red goddess path.
Bohinj lake
One of Marko's cosmograms near a children's camp.
The source of a river, fed by 7 holy lakes.
Looking tired, but happy.
The Julian Alps - Slovenia.
A tourist stop on top of a mountain.
The source of the river Saco.
When Marko says to wear good shoes he means it.
We had to walk along side the cliff hanging on to this cable.
Another waterfall, another source.
Time to meditate.
Time to go back.
A little Alpine village.
A place for elemental beings, with loads of faces in the rocks.
A chruch in the valley where 100,000 died in a battle. We toned here.
After the toning the rain stopped and see the next sides...
The glories of the heavens broke forth!
A wonderful old pilgrimage church.
An elemental being carved into the side of the church.
The ancient bell tower.
Ancient frescoes.
The priest who was suspicious of us after we toned here.
Beautiful ancient carvings.
A rock being in the shape of a giant owl.
More rock beings.
A family of rocks that I liked.
They invited me to join them.
Cyclamen growing wild out of a rock.
The tree's lip holding the forest fire sign.
Gail and Alexandra.
The two Jesus children depected with the crowned virgin.
At her trial the Virgin Mary appeared to the judge and priests to prove this shepherdess was telling the truth.
A painting of this shepherdess who had a vision of the Virgin Mary. She was given a message and then jailed for heresy.
Alpine village.
The place where Marko first met the giant water nymph Feronica.
Behind the Main Street businesses were multiple sources for a couple of rivers.
Another cave, source of a river.
Save town another source.
Another source.
It was too hot in the hotel room, so we moved our mattresses to the balcony. Lindsey and Elyse.
Lindsey & Gail - cool and happy.
A medieval town.
You have to enter the castle walls to get into the village.
Great carved door.
Event the “ruins” were beautiful.
The village well with plastic gnomes and fairies.
Grapevines grow over the paths.
A cool dooway.
I loke roofs and chimneys.
More chimneys.
Wildflowers
The limestone caves.
