Simple is Best

Take a Roma Tomato

Slice it up

Take an Avocado

Slice it up

Add it to the tomato

Eat

Delicious

The best lunch around.

Sometimes, simple is best.

I'm joining Art Every Day Month and Tuesday Muse.

(Nancy is taking a holiday break.  I hope she'll be back.  I'll continue to Muse on Tuesday!)

Wishing All of YOU well and much joy!

Happy Owloween!

Halloween is just around the corner and
 I'm celebrating potion (tea) making Owl style!

I found the owl teapot and cups and saucers at Macy's -- on sale!

Yippee!

The pattern is Edle Rose by Rachel Bilson Dinnerware, Owl Teapot

I don't believe the butterflies on the saucers have a true function other than being cute!

I'm careful how I handle and store them. 

I'm joining:

Nancy for Tuesday Muse 

 and some lovely tea parties:

Tea Time Tuesday

Teacup Tuesday

Friends Sharing Tea

Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Wishing all of you well, much joy and a wonderful cup of tea!

Happy Owloween!

Musing With Tea

I enjoyed the final days of summer using my shell teapot 

and oversized teacup.

I do admit, it's hard to believe fall has arrived with temps in
the high 80s and let's not mention the humidity!

But, just in case Harvest time has arrived where you live,
here is a little weather lore from the Farmers Almanac.

- If Autumn leaves are slow to fall, a cold winter is in store.

- Onion and apple skins, corn husks, and nutshells are traditional indicators -

the thicker the exterior, the harsher the winter.

- An be sure to notice migrating hawks:

Hawks flying high mean a clear sky.

When they fly low, prepare for a blow.

I'm joining:

And some lovely tea parties:

Tea Time Tuesday

Teacup Tuesday

Friends Sharing Tea

Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a lovely cup of tea!

Saying Goodbye to Summer

Most of you are saying goodbye to summer.

I said goodbye to UGHust and am now welcoming sizzling, stuffy September. 

When I think of summer, I think of beaches and sea shells ... like this one. 

I'm joining Nancy for The Tuesday Muse.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Tea Musing

My sista sent me home with one more teacup.

Believe it or not, I did not have a Roslyn teacup.

Now I do -- the beautiful Moss Rose -- 

photographed here with one of the ICADs from this years challenge.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Tuesday Muse

I've been busy with Index Card a Day.

It's too hot to do any walking or adventuring outside for photo taking.

I'm letting tea be my muse today and sharing my new-to-me teacup.

(Thank you Nancy for hosting.)

My sista suggested I bring this little beauty home with me.

She had drawer full of teacups and this one and its mate called to me.

I don't have any like this Royal Stafford teacup.

Now I have two!

I love the birds.

I spent quite a bit of time online yesterday trying to find the pattern name.

No luck.

Perhaps one of my tea friends can help?!

A little faded daguerrotype processing.

 Faded daguerrotype and Nancy's Deanna texture.

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a lovely cup of tea!

A Little Tea Enchantment

Important things first:

To all my Canadian Friends -- Happy Canada Day!

*

There is no reason I can't enjoy the heat with a little

Enchanted Tea.

Enchanted Lands

Iced tea in a pretty green glass mug

A mini carnation

and I can forget about the heat for awhile!

I used one of Nancy's textures at 50%.

I erased the texture over the carnation.

A little fun editing on a hot day -- iced tea at hand!

Thank you Nancy!

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Share Your Cup Thursday

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a wonderful cup of tea!

Tuesday Muse

Tea is my muse today --

This lovely teacup from Bentley Tea.

One of Nancy's scripted textures and an added quote.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Blooming!

Blooming in Musashi's Garden

Using one of Nancy's scripted textures.




Nancy, Thank you for hosting!



Wishing YOU well and much joy.

My Cup Of Magic

I try very hard not to pay full price for a teacup.

Every now and then that rule takes flight.

I found this cup at Anthropologie and it was instant love.

It is funky.

Wavy edges on the cup and saucer.

Bright colors.

Colorful flowers.

Butterflies inside and outside the cup.

(I drank the tea so you could see the inside.)

Fun aqua colored handle.

It was designed by New Orleans artist Shelley Hesse.

The first cup moistens my lips and throat.
The second shatters my loneliness.
The third causes the wrongs of life to fade gently from my recollection.
The fourth purifies my soul.
The fifth lifts me to the realms of the unwinking gods.
    Chinese Mystic, Tang Dynasty
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Share Your Cup Thursday

I'm also joining Nancy at A Rural Journal for Tuesday Muse.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Something Special

We had a very big rain storm last week.

Lots of wind.

I decided to cut some of the roses before they were destroyed by the storm.

There's something special about your own roses from the garden and a cup of tea.

The tea cup is Royal Albert Country Rose.

Lush pink and gold blossoms plucked from the Old Country Roses collection

 are contrasted by bands of buttermilk-yellow in everyday porcelain.

Roses and tea feed the soul.

And remember:

"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done." ~Author Unknown

Thank you to our tea party hosts:

Tea Time Tuesday

A Return To Loveliness
Friends Sharing Tea
Teacup Tuesday

Tuesday Cup'a Tea

Share Your Cup Thursday

I'm also joining Nancy at Tuesday Muse.

Wishing YOU well, much joy and a wonderful cup of tea!

Tuesday Muse

Thank you to Nancy for the Tuesday Muse.

I also used one of Nancy's textures (laundry skies) on this photo.

Wishing YOU well and much joy!

Daffodils

"For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils."

~William Wordsworth

A big thank you to Karen for hosting Sunlit Sunday

 The Tablescaper for Seasonal Sunday

and

Wishing YOU well and much joy!