CFFC: Eyes
04 Wednesday Jan 2023
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This week’s Fun Foto Challenge by Cee Neuner is Apple Red.
Red is one of my favourite colours. I even wrote a Red Shoe Manifesto. Sadly, I haven’t been able to wear my red shoes this year, but I have enjoyed splashes of colour in other ways.
There is a shade of red for every woman.
Audrey Hepburn
19 Monday Sep 2022
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monarchy, photography, tea, tea addict, tea cups, tea lover, tea photography, tea time
Cheers to a great Lady on her final journey, Queen Elizabeth II.
God save the King!
05 Monday Sep 2022
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#whatsinmycup, food, garden, nature, photography, poetry, tea, tea addict, tea lover, tea party, tea photography, tea quotes
‘T was very, very long ago, in days no longer snug
When giant stood about so high and pixies all were young
The Queen of Fairies said one day, ‘I’m tired of honey-dew,
So hasten now, and mix for me a cup of something new’.
‘It must lift the drooping spirit, it must heal the wounded heart;
It must bring the smile of happiness, and bid the tear depart;
It must make the young grow younger, and the old no longer old;
It must make the poor contented, and the rich forget their gold’.
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When it boiled, they cooled and poured it, so the ancient story goes;
And to the Queen they brought it in the chalice of a rose.
She sipped, delighted; then she cried: ‘I issue this decree;
The cup you have so deftly brewed, I christen “Fairy Tea”!’.
So when you see the fairy folk “at home” in Dingle Dell,
Fairy Tea by D.K.S., Old Wives Tales, St. Nicholas: an illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume 40, 1914
All sipping something dainty from their cups of heather-bell,
You will notice they are happy, as good as fairies ought to be,
And that’s because they always use their famous Fairy Tea.
Happy Labour Day!
24 Wednesday Aug 2022
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inLife’s not about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
17 Wednesday Aug 2022
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#whatsinmycup, food, Photo Challenge, tea, tea addict, tea cups, tea lover, tea photography, tea time, teacup
You may have noticed that I use a white tea cup in a lot of my tea photographs. It’s because my “good china” is all white. We thought it was the best way to never get sick of our good dishes or see them become dated. They work in every season. We’ve been married 26 years and I’m still in love with them.
This is my post for Cee Neuner’s Mid-Week Madness Photo Challenge: White
03 Wednesday Aug 2022
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inThe single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Happy Wednesday!
27 Wednesday Jul 2022
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inMany critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25 Monday Jul 2022
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in20 Wednesday Jul 2022
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inSometimes goldfinches one by one will drop
John Keats
From low hung branches; little space they stop;
But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek;
Then off at once, as in a wanton freak:
Or perhaps, to show their black and golden wings,
Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.
Happy Wednesday!
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