The topic of this month’s Association of Tea Bloggers sponsored Blog Carnival was to describe a memorable outdoor tea drinking experience. I like tea. I also like flora, fauna and the outdoors parts of the world. But I don’t often appreciate or experience them concurrently. So in order to fulfill my agreement to contribute to [...]
The Face of Luck Glass, water, wood and electricity Symbiotic Relationship Detail Wood NOTE: The first and fourth photos were taken by Chris, our occasional guest photographer.
These are the first of a handful of tea-related photographs that don’t fit with any written articles. Water Steam Wet with Puer An Assemblage of Teaware Tea and Wine Pairing
While I am extremely strict about using only teawares that come from the same culture as the tea I am drinking, I have a soft spot for the misfits, anomalies and enigmas of the world, and also objects that signify an intersection of cultures. The piece of teaware in the accompanying photographs is one of [...]
The topic for this month’s Tea Blog Carnival, sponsored by the Association of Tea Bloggers and hosted on The Sip Tip is “how do you incorporate tea into your daily life?” Aside from the obvious, which is that just like everyone else I manage to make time for the things I’m most interested in, I [...]
My abiding interest in tea and tea cultures manifests not only in acquiring, using and consuming tea and teawares, but also in a thirst for knowledge and reference materials in the form of books about tea and tea-related topics. It’s important for me to be able to look things up when I need to, and [...]
This is a teapot that I bought from Brett of Black Dragon Tea Bar several weeks ago. It was acquired during his most recent tea-related travels in Taiwan. Before seasoning it had a darker, very waxy, shiny surface on the outside, but it mellowed into the dusty surface it has now. It’s quite a photogenic [...]
The Association of Tea Bloggers is hosting a series of blog carnivals, which are round-ups of posts centered around one theme and published on the same day. For more details on the tea blog carnival project read this post on the ATB web site. Brett of Black Dragon Tea Bar, finding the specialness in a [...]
This is my contribution to the first in a series of tea blog carnivals sponsored by the Association of Tea Bloggers, the theme of which is, “What is your favorite piece of teaware, and why?” While it was a bit of a challenge to choose just one item of tea ware among so many that [...]
There are tea mascots that are entirely charming and wonderful. Of course I am partial to my wonderful bat, who I decided to name Xingfu (幸福), and who sits at the tea table during nearly every session of Gongfu Cha, receiving frequent doses of tea and water over his shiny clay body. But there are [...]
