Sunday Morning

Adopt the pace of nature:

her secret is patience.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Postcard Friendship Friday

Postcard Friendship Friday is hosted each week by the lovely Beth.

Each week you can see a variety of postcards from the old to the new, the comic to the serious, a true variety. Be sure to visit!

I have one more of the linen postcards to share with you.

Lunch Room, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

It is numbered: 1B-H180

This is the only one of the linen postcards I've shared with you that says:

"Santa Fe Railway Photograph"

Lunch Room,

Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park,

New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park is located at White's City, N. M.

Luncheons are served daily in the spacious Lunch Room, 750 feet underground.

Happy PFF!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Joy To You!

Good Morning!

Teacup Tuesday

Our hostesses for Teacup Tuesday are Martha and Teri.

Be sure to visit to see the Teacups on Parade!

I have a soft spot in my heart for Belleek, perhaps because of my Celtic background.

Their work is gorgeous and the Parian porcelain so thin that the cups are perfect for tea leaf reading, but that's a whole other post!

I'd like to share with you my Belleek Shamrock teapot and teacups.

I love the distinctive harp shaped handles, the hand painted Shamrocks, the rounded edges of the cups in the Shamrock shape.

You can see the shell pattern on the teapot and cups.

I also have a set of 4 mugs hand painted with the Shamrocks and with a woven embossment.

In 1849 John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited the Castlecaldwell estate, which encompassed the village of Belleek, from his father. Mindful of the plight of his tenants in the aftermath of the potato famine he sought to provide some form of worthwhile employment. An amateur mineralogist, he ordered a geologic survey of his land. To his delight it revealed the necessary raw materials to make Pottery - feldspar, kaolin, flint, clay and shale.

Porcelain was featured by Belleek for the first time at the Dublin Exposition of 1872. Their display was the largest in the Irish and English industrial areas. Among the pieces listed in the catalogue for the event are Parian china statues and busts, ice buckets, compotes and centerpieces.

The history of Belleek is interesting and you can read more here.

Have a wonderful week filled with tasty tea!

Joy to You!

Mosaic Monday

Mosaic Monday is hosted each week by the lovely Mary.

Each mosaic is different. Each a story to tell.

You'll enjoy visiting - I promise!

In a way, this is a continuation of the previous post about baseball.

We went to the Astros baseball game Friday night.

Poor Astros. They've had two bad years in a row and should be in the rebuilding mode.

Time will tell.

But that didn't keep us from enjoying the game with the Cincinnati Reds.

It was a pretty good game and the Reds won.

(One of the Astros announcers said, "the best thing about this series is that it's air conditioned.")

But that was okay, because Paul Janish is on the Reds team.

Paul went to Rice University and played on the baseball team that won the College World Series in 2003. It is always nice when *our* boys come home!

Friday night at Minute Maid Park (also known as The Juice Box)

is fireworks night and they were beautiful.

The roof to the ballpark is opened and the fireworks begin.

Part of the ball park is attached to the old Union Station.

That's why there is a train at the park (filled with giant oranges).

But the most important part of the night--

it was our first really long night out since Mr. Dragon's cancer diagnosis

and the end of all the treatment.

We had a lovely time.

The game was entertaining.

Mr. Dragon enjoyed the food (a stuffed baked potato).

He didn't get too tired or too hot.

YeeHaw!

Wishing all of you a wonderful week.

Joy to You!