For me it is about treating myself well with teatime and enjoying the outdoors.
It is the experience of delight that touches my heart.
This week it was tea time between raindrops outdoors in the garden.
If you have been following me awhile, you know this about me.
I adore incorporating flowers into my teatime;
so I picked a bouquet from the garden.
Mostly it was one bloom from the tree peony.
There were 10 of these amazing blooms this year.
Then tucked to the side for fragrance were purple lilac.
Just the bouquet would make me happy,
but tea food and a good cup of tea just made the day.
There were sandwiches with cream cheese and a strawberry/kiwi flower,
rounds of toast with a trout* filling and violet,
then for the sweet was linzer cookies with ground up lemon herbal/tea in the dough
and apricot jam.
Harney & Sons Darjeeling tea was the choice to sip.
*The trout was a tin from World Market that had been in the cupboard
awhile. Now why hadn't I eaten that sooner, it was delicious.
So glad I had two tins, now I can do this again.
It was the perfect way to celebrate an ordinary day made special
with tea in the garden under the arbor of roses beginning to bloom.
