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Jun 19

Saturday Morning Tea

My morning tea is waking me up with its bold taste and refreshing pungency! From the area of Qianjiang located in Hubei Province, China, it has been processed as a gunpowder green tea. Gunpowder tea leaves are withered, and then steamed before bein (read full article)

family, gardens, Green Tea, gunpowder green tea, Gunpowder tea, Life Musings, Nature, Photography, tea, tea review

Oct 07

Taos Journey – Last Day

The last day. So final. This is the day that you find yourself trying to fit in everything that you wanted to do but didn’t get a chance to on all of the other days. So, it turned into a “bits” day – a little bit of this and (read full article)

Beauty, Color, creativity, family, Inspiration, Jane Thornley knitting workshop, Knitting, Life Musings, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Nature

Oct 01

Taos Journey – Day 3

On the 3rd day of our Taos journey, we took a trip south to visit the capital of New Mexico, Santa Fe, for the afternoon. For me, the highlight of our visit there was a trip to the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. From the moment when I first gazed up (read full article)

Beauty, family, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Inspiration, Life Musings, Michael's Kitchen, Photography, Santa Fe, Taos, travel

Sep 25

Dancing with the Rainbow

Perhaps the rainbow that guided us out of Albuquerque and along the road to Taos was more than just a good omen for our stay there. I believe my future was being revealed to me. I just found out recently that one of my color heroes, Lindly Haunani, w (read full article)

Books, collage, Color, color workshop, creativity, Inspiration, Life Musings, Lindly Haunani, Polymer Clay, Polymer Clay Color Inspirations

Sep 23

Taos Journey – Day 2

Every morning we carefully stepped our way across the cobblestones to the workroom where we  settled down in our own individual cozy spot, picked up our pointy sticks and let the yarn flow from them in colors that spoke to us of the gorgeous Taos (read full article)

Beauty, Color, creativity, Inspiration, Jane Thornley workshop, Knitting, Lamberts Taos, Life Musings, Nature, Photography

Sep 21

Taos Journey – Day 1

Despite getting a late start on the road from Albuquerque to Taos and also leaving during the height of rush hour traffic, we were graced with a very good omen that traveled along with us for quite some time. As I drove along, I just kept thinking h (read full article)

Beauty, Color, creativity, Inspiration, Jane Thornley workshop, Knitting, Life Musings, Nature, Photography, Taos

Sep 19

Saturday Morning Tea

Hello friends! It’s wonderful to be back, sharing a cup of tea with you again. It seems that while I have been away in New Mexico, Fall has arrived on our doorstep and established itself here in New England. While in Taos, I purchased a lovely (read full article)

China green tea, Dong Yang Dong Bei, Green Tea, Life Musings, Photography, tea, tea review, Teaware, travel

Sep 05

Saturday Morning Tea

The hint of fall that was in the air at the beginning of the week has now left us and we are finally blessed with a perfectly glorious summer weekend, not too hot and humid, not too cool, juuuuust right. Even though it is officially considered the l (read full article)

Castleton estate Darjeeling, Color, Darjeeling Second Flush Tea, Darjeeling Tea, Inspiration, Life Musings, Nature, Photography, tea, tea review

Sep 04

A Trip to New Mexico and a Knitting Retreat

With each passing day, my anticipation and excitement is growing and expanding as I think about my coming journey to New Mexico. 2 more days! The first half of my trip will be spent in Albuquerque visiting with my youngest son and his family. And, y (read full article)

Beauty, Color, Come Spring vest, creativity, family, Feather and Fan stitch, free range knitting, Inspiration, Jane Thornley workshop, Knitting

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