Marie with fellow Windy City RWA member Kelle Z. Riley. Kelle's admiring my Indian necklace which looks like ivory but is actually carved camel bone. Thanks, Mom and Dad, you globe-trotters, you!

Booksigning at Illinois Wesleyan University

Marie signs HER BODY OF WORK at the Bloomington, Illinois Barnes & Noble

Windy City RWA 2006 Bookseller and Librarian Appreciation Dinner. Marie’s wearing a custom-made silk cheongsam that a family member brought back from Vietnam

Valentine’s Day 2006 benefit for the American Heart Association

 

 

Here are some photos from my summer 2006 trip to Toronto.

 

In front of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Wonderful Asian collections with the ever-popular cherry blossom!

 

Gorgeous French art glass at the ROM. Get the exhibition guide with the photos if you can.

     

 

 

Elaborate samurai helmets from a variety of eras.
 

Queen Victoria Park—a gorgeous rhododendron.

At the foot of Niagara Falls on the Maid of the Mist.

 

At Queen Victoria Park across from Niagara Falls. Possibly a Peace Rose?

 


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