As a belated Valentine's Day gift for the DH, I recently made dinner, as in a real dinner and not my normal pasta-corn-peas-greens-...

Four-paneled screen, gift from Sweetcakes   Early Spring Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintr...

A Bergamot Orange Imagine my delight when I recently found bergamot orange at the local market!  :-)  Only a handful were available, a...

The Red Robe Teahouse There's a new teahouse and cafe in Portland, The Red Robe .  The location, at NW Davis and NW Third in Chi...

The Rungeet River I plan to do more picnicking this year!  An inspiration was this picnic, one that sets the bar high!  The Rungeet ...

Buddhist monks and nuns, chanting and praying How intense, the colors of the clothing on these monks as they chanted and prayed in Xi...

Smelling freshly-made tea, just seconds out of the dryer We've traveled to West Bengal, India, from Siliguri up the mountain into...

A branch from an unidentified tree (perhaps crabapple). We snipped this and encouraged it to bloom inside.  I hope you enjoy these t...

The year of the Dragon ( Water Dragon , specifically) has come to be!  As the celebrating come to a close, I want to share pictures from th...

Tound it on Tavalon's blog.

  Camellia Sinensis Both of these lovelies are in my home today.  The tea plant, above, was a gift from Marmalady and her green-thumb...

Mist in the Darjeeling hills "Ethereal" is the best word I could find to describe the experience of the tea fields at Glenb...

The flowers of the tea field About 350 women pick the 60 tea fields (nearly 300 hectares) at Glenburn Tea Estate .  Their children att...

The view from my bed at Glenburn Tea Estate I woke my first morning at Glenburn to a light tap at the door.  Bed tea had arrived! ...