Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Teatime for Easter

 The weather couldn't have been more perfect on Easter Sunday.
A most delightful day to share afternoon tea in the garden house.
Now the garden house is sometimes called the tea house
as often we love to take a cup of tea there.
Often we invite friends to join us, but with the situation as it is
it was the three members that live in our house -
my "live-in gardener" husband and our son.
Lovejoy's is 12 blocks from our home and they were delivering tea time for Easter.
At the appointed time the owner of the shop pulled up on his bicycle and delivered a
wonderful bag of goodies. I had him ride his bicycle around and down the alley so he
could see where we would have tea.
Now why didn't I take a picture of his cute bicycle delivery service?
We each choose two sandwich flavors.
There was chicken walnut (2 chose this one), chutney and cheddar cheese,
salmon with cream cheese, ham and cheese, roast beef with horseradish,
coleslaw, lettuce salad,
then a delicious scone with jam and clotted cream,
small lavender shortbread cookies
and one sweet for each of us.  
Each of us chose a different tea.
There was a rooibos with vanilla, a puerh with chocolate nibs, and black currant teas.
My choice was the black currant, but a sip of the puerh was quite good.
I would order that one the next time.

Though our Easter day wasn't the tradition of gathering friends and family
together it was a special day.
There was zoom church in the morning where many of us wore our Easter bonnets.
Teatime in the garden house.
Zoom gathering of tea friends to sip and chat for awhile.
Then skype with our daughter and grandson too.
It was a busy day, but many missed hugs.

Hoping you each had a wonderful Easter.

4 comments:

Thelma said...

A nice tea setting. Those sandwiches make me hungry.
Take care and stay safe.

Jeanie said...

What a beautiful, delicious and unique way to celebrate Easter with your family. It looks beautiful (not least of which is your setting!). I'm glad it was a lovely day. Different to be sure, but lovely.

Rosemary said...

Oh my goodness! How incredibly creative and extra special to be able to enjoy Afternoon Tea delivered via bicycle on Easter Sunday! It seems fitting to partake of a non-traditional Easter celebration for the rather unique situation we are all experiencing. Love it! Although we prepared our traditional Easter ham dinner, it was a simple gathering of our small family group. We zoomed with the rest of the clan at the end of the day. Missing all the extra laughs when the whole family gathers, and of course the many hugs!

Red Rose Alley said...

It's nice that you got to enjoy Zoom with loved ones on Easter, Marilyn. I'm glad that me and the girls set that up as well, so I can chat with them. The food and goodies that you share always look as if it was prepared with such ease. Your photos always show how Yummy everything looks. Chicken walnut sandwiches sound delicious, and I haven't had a good coleslaw in a long time. Sounds like you had a beautiful Easter day, Marilyn.

~Sheri