Celebrating the Chinese New Year at Lan Su Chinese Garden

I attended the Feng Shui lecture this afternoon at the Lan Su Chinese Garden in downtown Portland. The Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit begins February 3, 2011. Afterwards I had Golden Monkey tea and Almond Cookies in the Tearoom. There was a lack of tables so I invited Donna to sit at my table. We talked about Lisa See, a Chinese American writer and novelist, whose novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), and Dragon Bones (2003) make up the Red Princess mystery series; Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture and the book The Women (2009); and Wineries and the impact of the Missoula Flood. In the Gift Shop I saw a chart that showed that I was born in the Year of the Boar/Pig!