Angel Wings & Apron Strings: Tea

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8/23/11

A Warm Tea

Spring is only a week away for us here in Australia.

The garden, awakening after a winter doze

is throwing off snowy quilts and turning it's face

to welcome the warm rays of the sun again.

And today I am sitting with my back to winter's window,

happily inhaling green peppermint tea and golden jonquils.

Fruit on my plate...strawberries and banana bread!

This is simply a joy!

(Bananas had become a luxury for us after devastating floods wiped out the Australian crop.)

Yellow daffodils are keeping jolly company with waning helebores all snuggled in my old tin teapot

while the first soft pink camellias of the season lay beside them.
The year-long dance of these blossoms having turned full circle once again.

"In the tiny petal

of a tiny flower

that grew from a tiny pod

is the miracle and the mystery

of all creation and God!"

Helen Steiner Rice

The cup and saucer I am using today is from a set I've had for a long time.

The brand is Orion and it is made in Germany.
A delicate small cup..just right for herbal tea!

I love it's bright floral pattern on the fine white china.

A sweet little garden blessed by the sun to cheer my day!

It reminds me of the faithfulness of God

Who promises to bring about each wonderful new season in it's time.

May it always be the hopeful season of Spring within our hearts, dear friends!

"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Genesis 8:22

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I'm joining Sandi today for Tea Time Tuesday

6/22/11

Some Days..

Some days you just want to stay curled up indoors

and indulge yourself with steaming hot chocolate and something sweet.

Days when your vegetable seedlings are sent sleeping under the downy quilt of sudden snow

and your clothesline has surrendered to the gales of a fierce winter wind.

Yes, on those kind of days you need some sweetness to soothe the mind

and help you to remember that one season quickly passes on to another

and soon enough, you will be taking tea again under the summer shade of a heady lilac hedge.

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Let nothing trouble you.
Let nothing frighten you.
For everything passes but God will never change.
Patient endurance will obtain everything
Whoever has God, wants for nothing at all.
St Teresa of Avila
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My Hearts for Home goal this week is to help the Woodman repair my clothesline, and to look for the chocolate-coated side of every circumstance that comes my way!!

Linking with Gae at Cherished Hearts at Home

and Sandi at Rose Chintz Cottage