Picking tea in Muzha, Taiwan Happy Friday!  Just breathe in deeply and smell the fresh tea leaves. Breathe out and let your brea...

As a tea lover, you probably know of the Brown Betty teapot.  Have you ever heard of the Brown Bobby ?  It's a triangle-shaped donut ...

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, A crack in everything And that's where th...

The day before 4th of July, a friend and I had the opportunity to visit a new tea room called Tea's Me .  We visited with owner Ju...

It's zucchini season and we're eating it at nearly every dinner.  Here are a few of our ways to enjoy this bountiful vegetable (...

"Let the world boil down to just this cup, this moment, and let the warmth slowly spread from your fingers throughout your whole b...

Love - Joy - Peace - Patience - Kindness - Goodness - A Cup of Tea - A Hug - A Listening Ear - A Do Over Today, I need a do-over.  :-) ...

Old Mill House Inn The DH and I recently took a mini vacation to Vernonia, OR. It was great!  We are riding our bikes both Saturday a...

This tea jar is one of the treasures I brought home from Taiwan.  I fell in love with the pretty little bird and the fact that it had...

Today, I'm going to point you to my good friend   Marilyn's blog for a summary of an Afternoon Tea event we enjoyed yesterday.  Pho...

Back to Taiwan travels! Most of us think of oolong tea when we think of Taiwan, but the island has a long history of producing black t...

I like the challenge of this photo.  It makes my brain work hard to truly see it.  The gaiwan on the right is the apparent focus, with it...

Busy Day Cake with bergamot lemon curd and garden strawberries I made another batch of the Bergamot Lemon Curd over the weekend. What ...

I'm married to an introvert.  Over the years I've come to acknowledge, then accept, then appreciate and now admire his need for qu...

Our garden has been generous with providing amazing luscious strawberries !  I also had frozen bergamot citrus   juice and rind I'd ...

It's been some time since I wrote about a Meatless Monday, and with the garden producing so much, I thought I'd get back to it.  ...

Congratulations to Caranam , who has won my blog giveaway!  I'll be in touch. Lu Yu is an important character in tea's his...

Son-in-Law, Tea Farmer, considering his freshly made tea At the Alishan tea farm, the Son-in-Law (that's what we called him) has st...

Well, I fell into the rabbit hole of work and catching up but think I have found normal again. ") Lu Yu's story was on my min...

In Alishan (high mountain oolong), tea pickers (predominantly women) are often seasonal workers who move from farm to farm as the tea beco...