Even though the rain is pelting down in frozen pellets, new life is springing forth from the garden, the jonquils are attempting to bloom today!
Of course, then, it's time to bring out the bunnies and begin celebrating the season of new birth!!!!
Tabletops throughout the house are enlivened by the promise of spring.... it puts me in such a cheery mood, a tea break is in the offing...
To quote, C.S. Lewis,
Tea should be taken in solitude.
Time to enjoy Royal Albert's Provincial Floral Series, Alberta Rose, with a bit of cinnamon tea to chase away the chill!
Peeking out from under an arbor of roses the tea offers up its savory sweetness to co-mingle with their marvelous scent!
With the fresh fruit at hand, my cup of spicy warmth, I take up my book, Wings of Silver,
a lovely compilation of words taken from Jo Petty's Introduction ... "All the wise thoughts
have been thought already, thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must think them over and over again honestly until they take place in our personal experience."
This lovely book , a gift to my mother many years ago, sat on her coffee table over the decades, seldom opened in recent time, but now savored for its wisdom and glory, for much of its text originates from God's Word!
A wondrous book to mull over with tea!
One truth in the section entitled, "Joy"...
"The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days"
... such a word of wisdom that even the flowers of the field understand yet, man can not seem to hold on to... we may grasp it for a time, then it falters when cloudy days come....
We truly may remember the lilies of the field...
Luke 12:27
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
All they do is keep looking up.... all they need is provided by the Father!
A bit of time carved out of an afternoon to cherish a cup a tea over some wonderful words of life and joy!... these words really spoke to the wanderlust in my heart...
"To be happy at home is the ultimate aim of all ambition.... he is happiest who finds his peace in his home.....A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it"....
and a really wonderful one to live by..
"activity and sadness are incompatible"....
Well, back to my teatime, before the chill robs me of its grandeur!
I love the addition of my Steiff pewter teapot agaisnt the blue and white!
Nothing like pure maple syrup on freshly homemade waffles hot form the iron!
To delight our other senses, a dish of springy paper whites in lovely blue and white procelain! 
