Jelly 🌻🍁🍉

Tea tableau on a green felt oak leaf with a green shamrock print tea cozy and vintage mint green cup, saucer, and cream pitcher rimmed with pastel flowers. There is a silver Celtic knotwork brooch pinned to the cozy. There is a green and blue handmade art card that says Friends Always. The tea is Darjeeling from Ahmad.

"GreenDay"
#Teableau 13Mar26

Counting down to St Patrick's Day

#Teableau #StPaddy

Tea tableau on black flannel with multicolored polkadots. There is a red tea cozy with white polkadots. There is a white embroidered bookmark with red cardinals, a red foil packet of black Chinese tea, and a small white cardinal figurine. The cup and saucer are white with small red and blue nosegays.

"Dots"
#Teableau 12Mar26

Lotsa dotsa.

#Tea #Polkadots

White and green tea tableau on Irish Lace with a quilting square of green prints including shamrocks. The teapot and mug are white rimmed in green and with a dainty spray of shamrocks at center. There is a wooden heart painted green with a white Celtic triskele design handpainted on it. The tea is Irish Breakfast black loose-leaf tea from Adagio.

"Celtic Heart"
#Teableau 11Mar26

I've been a day late in posting every day this week, I think. I doubt anyone notices. 😆

#Tea #LifeGetsInTheWay

Tea tableau in rippling blue and green ocean colored fabrics, and a sea turtle theme. There is a fired white clay sea turtle with a green glass mosaic shell, and a spoon with a sea turtle on the handle. There's also a seed pearl seahorse brooch, and a diamond art plaque of a shore scene, and vintage Russian china and a quilted white tea cozy covered in deep blue vines. The tea is Milky Oolong from Harney and Sons.

"Glide"
#Teableau 10Mar26

Just keep swimming.

#Tea #SeaTurtles

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Purple and green tea tableau bursting with large purple and white gazanias with a green- garbed gnome figurine emerging from them. The cozy is a purple striped and calico fabric, the cup is a graceful white mug with delicate purple flowers, and there is a handpainted green antique cream pitcher with purple flowers. The tea is Black Currant black tea from Harney and Sons in a purple and white tin. Everything rests upon a pastel patchwork quilt.

"Little Green Man"
#Teableau 09Mar26

This tea is intended to be served iced but I think I'll try brewing & drinking it hot, as it's not really iced tea weather here today.

#Tea #Graupel

Tea tableau on a tan linen tea towel with lace edging and a flowered ribbon embellishment. The cozy is yellow daffodils, daisies, and buttercups with blue cornflowers. Behind it is an antique oval blue and white Staffordshire platter on a stand showing a lakeside scene beside some ruins. The cup and saucer are powder blue. There is a white ceramic spoon with painted yellow flowers. There is an adorable little Dutch girl figurine in blue traditional dress and cap. There is a pair of miniature Delft Dutch clogs, and a small Delft heart brooch with a windmill image. The tea is a brown and blue packet of Orange Pekoe black tea from Harney and Sons.

"Going Dutch"
#Teableau 08Mar26

The figurine looks just like a little miss that I know, although, to my knowledge, she has never been kitted out in traditional Dutch costume, herself.

#Tea #Holland #TheNetherlands

Peach, pink, and soft green tea tableau on delicate floral paper, featuring a streamline design teapot, cup and saucer, and creamer and sugar bowl in colors of peach and pearl. There is a glass globe with a hummingbird and trumpet flower painting hanging on a gold stand, and below it, a magnificent heart and arrow shaped brooch with a gleaming green center cabochon jewel and rimmed in sparkling clear faceted stones. The tea is a pink packet of English Rose black tea.

"Hanging 'Round"
#Teableau 07Mar26

This tea set is vintage Poole Pottery (England), Twintone "Peach Bloom & Seagull."

#Tea #VintageChina

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Vividly colored tea tableau with two orange painted wooden crabs, one wearing a golden crown. The china is white with turquoise and gold crowns. The cozy has a colorful underwater scene of fish and coral. Underneath everything is a grey quilt square with orange calico edging. The tea is Peach black tea from Stash.

"King Crab"
#Teableau 06Mar26

Yeah, I do a lot of crab- themed teableaux. Crabs are just so cool!

#Tea #Crabs

Tea tableau in grey, fawn, orange, and sage with vintage china patterned in falling leaves, a cozy patterned with woodland creatures in a William Morris style print, a backdrop with whimsical foxes, and a handpainted wooden squirrel figurine. The tea is Apple Cinnamon black tea.

"Chitter"
#05Mar26

Chitter chatter, a noise that both foxes and squirrels can make. 🦊🐿

#Tea #Foxes #Squirrels

I'm not crazy about herbal teas, generally, so I have this one primarily for the canister, lol. It's gotu kola, elderberry, ginger, orange peel, cinnamon, gingko, lemon balm, and hawthorn berry, and actually pretty nice.

#Teableau

Tea tableau on deep blue basketweave print with a theme of bluebirds as depicted on the embroidered tea cozy, tea cannister, and in a trio of ceramic bluebird figurines. There are also napkins to match the tea towel, a vintage cup and saucer in a white and blue scatter print, a spoon with painted boysenberries, and the tea is Bluebird Morning, an herbal infusion from Flying Bird Botanicals.

"Little Blue"
04Mar26

Named for Jacob Collier's song "Little Blue."

#Tea #JacobCollier

There needs to be massive pushback on this Bill. I’ll attach the Bill itself in the comments.

Not only does this entail a federal book ban, it specifically excludes (meaning no interference or oversight of) Compass Classroom, a (Christian) Biblically based, unaccredited organization…

White Evangelical Karens and Chads praying for the revolting Pederast-in-Chief.

"#Iran is ruled by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics."

—Marco Rubio

Library cards are genuinely one of humanity's greatest inventions — free access to infinite knowledge feels like magic every time. Your brother's about to discover that librarians have been the original life hackers all along! 📚✨

I am educating my brother about Hoopla and Libby. He wanted me to help him buy him an audiobook on Spotify and I said, "But, WAIT! Do you have a library card? Cause, that audiobook you want to listen to? The library has the whole series! For freeeeeee!!!"

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Tea tableau on ochre linen with a grey- blue pattern of vines and bees. The cozy is blue chintz with a pattern of large, muted blue and yellow flowers. There is a milk glass tray with matching cup and a silver spoon with a teacup for a handle. In the background are a decorative plate with an antique scene of a ship in a bay and an imprint that says Fine Blend China Tea. There is also a ceramic trivet shaped and colored like a slice of bread, upright on a stand. Before it on a gold edged scalloped green napkin is a miniature tableau of a toaster, a pair of stacked teacups, and a tiny silver spoon. The tea is a blue and green packet of Assam Exotic from Vahdam.

"Tea & Toast"
#Teableau 03Mar26

I use this milk glass tea & toast set on many a morning and I do think it makes everything taste better.

#Tea #MilkGlass

Tea tableau on a green and white polkadotted tea towel with a white and pink polkadotted tea cozy. At center upon a square of chintz is a statue of a white hare sitting tall. To its left is a rose flowered cup and saucer, to its right is a matching miniature teapot upon a green tartan pedestal. Behind the hare is a dark green ruffled glass basket holding a packet of Japanese sencha tea from Harney and Sons.

"A March Hare"
#Teableau 02Mar26

Bunny Ears!

#Tea #March

Want to buy signed copies of my novels? Click this link and I'll get out from behind my desk and get to signing for you!

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People should know that, at first, the enemy looked like everyday stuff: cars, buildings, phones. Then later, when they started designing themselves, Rob looked familiar but dis- torted, like people and animals from some other universe, built by some other god.

From Robopocalypse, by Daniel H Wilson

#BookSky 📚💙
#Robopocalypse
#AmReading
#DanielHWilson

@danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social

The artist who designed the poster in the #Teableau "Snow Goose Festival" is named Holly Stafford. (There are two artists named Holly Stafford; one is in Houston, but mine is in the PNW). She is found online as HollysImages dot com.

Tea tableau on blue fabric designed with a snowman flurry pattern, and with a crocheted lace snowflake resting at the center of it. The backdrop is a color drawing of a flock of snow geese flying over a mountain, sea, and meadow scene. The china tea set is plump and white, and there is a white porcelain spoon with a golden handle. The tea is Almond Cardamom Cake rooibos tea from Adagio.

"Snow Goose Festival"
#Teableau 01Mar26

It's that time of year again.

#Tea #SnowGeese

Tea tableau on a frilly white crocheted doily. The tea cozy is black with a pattern of pink roses, blue flowers, and pink ribbons. The creamer, sugar, and cup and saucer is cream colored with a midsection band of pink roses. The sugar bowl has a spoon with a teapot handle matching the china. There is a miniature green glass pitcher holding yellow daisies. There is a small ceramic figurine of a blueberry muffin. I forgot the tea!

"Frill"
#Teableau 28Feb26

This china puts me in mind of the nursery rhyme.

#Tea #RingAroundARosy

My other take is that any Justice who writes for anything other than full birthright citizenship should be impeached for that ALONE because that's such a flagrant violation of their oath of office that they cannot be trusted with anything ever again.

Tea tableau in soft minty hues upon a white cut lace doily. The china is a rigged mint green teapot and mug set, accompanied by fan shaped napkins in dark aqua with peach flowers. There is a fawn colored mushroom bird and a Tree of Life wire sculpture covered in a rainbow of semiprecious gemstones. There is a glass spoon in the mug that resembles a peacock feather. The tea is Berry black tea in a mint green canister.

"Sweetly"
#Teableau 27Feb26

The glass spoon that looks like a peacock feather came from Market Spice at Pike Place in Seattle.

#Tea #MarketSpice

Tea tableau in subtle sandy tones as on a beach. The centerpiece is a sandpiper bird sculpture standing on a driftwood. Behind it is a flower made entirely of tiny seashells, and beside that is a porcelain figurine of a blooming cactus. The vintage cup and saucer are Arcopal opalescent glass. The tea cozy is brown with a brown and white polkadotted bow. The tea is Vanilla black tea from Mark T Wendell.

"Sandbar"
#Teableau 26Feb26

I had a nice surprise in my mailbox today. A sweet friend had sent me this bird.

#Tea #Friendship

Tea tableau with three images on easels of woodpeckers or flickers; one is a painted woodcut, one is painted ceramic tile, and the third is a greeting card. The tea cozy has a pattern of barren bkack winter trees on white, and the vintage demitasse china is white with a delicate black edging design. There is a small wooden spoon, and the tea is a large red and black tin of Chinese Jasmine green tea. Everything rests upon a pale aqua tea towel with a raised border of evergreens.

"Tappa Tappa Tappa"
#Teableau 25Feb26

There was one near me yesterday just really going to town on a Douglas Fir.

#Tea #Woodpeckers