tea

The first spring tea on the porch

Sunday Tea

Barb (of the BarbErics) and I spent the night on the summit of Turner.

We took our stuff for "camping out" up on the chair-lift during the day,

and then snowmobiled up after the dining and dancing and festivities were

over.  It was an incredibley starry night and we saw some faint

aurora borealis off to the north before retiring.

I awakened in the night, nature was calling, and the moon was rising in the east

all orange through the Libby fire smog (an old mill building burnt down earlier in the week and is still smoldering) the sunrise was also Libby smog orange!

Spectacular!

We had our morning tea and scones out in the sunshine.

We had the hill to ourselves!

We took a walk to admire all the vistas and then loaded our stuff in a

tobaggan and headed down the slopes.

When do I ever lean and loaf at my ease to enjoy something beautiful for its own sake? Do I even know how to be at ease for one minute?…Contemplation is the prayer that all of us do naturally, without thinking. If we could notice what we are doing when we are not thinking and do more of it, our prayer lives would move ahead wondrously…In stillness we slip through the fences in our minds and hearts and escape to open country.

Mike Mason, Practicing the Presence of People

morning knitting, tea and NPR.

God is already present in the hidden depths of the present moment;

it is just because we were skimming along across the surface of what is happening

that we were unable to know and rest in that presence.

Gary Moon

double happiness green tea

in the beautiful tea cup

Molly put in my stocking

a beautiful mini tea garden in a cup!