Teatime in a Volcano

 Have you ever walked in the crater of a volcano?

This week I am taking you there.

"Mount Tabor is a dormant cinder cone of the Boring Lava Field, an extensive network of cinder cones and small shield volcanoes ranging from Boring, Oregon, to southwest Washington, and dating to the Plio-Pleistocene era. The lava field has been extinct for over 300,000 years. Portland is one of four cities in the United States to have an extinct volcano within its boundaries." 

The Mount Tabor Park was developed on this spot in the early 1900's.

The developers didn't realize it was an extinct volcano until after the park was developed. 

There is an amphitheater in the crater, but I decided to have a tea picnic right there.

With a rock wall as our backdrop, tea was served!

 Pesto rolls, egg salad sandwiches, chocolate cake decorated with nastursiums from my garden,

and tea.  In the cups was English Breakfast.

Teatime this week in the crater of a volcano was a special way of celebrating summers end.

As summer soon will come to a close I wonder how many outdoor teas are yet to come.

My favorite way of celebrating teatime is always outdoors.

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