Reading The Tea

Sarah and me (photo by Dustin)

Bronwen’s creation to go with afternoon tea: ginger snap and green tea ice cream sandwhiches.We drank them with ginger peach black tea as we were lacking milk to go with any of the other black teas.

 I found a Tahitian Pomello at the Farmer’s Market in Palo Alto. It was large and glowing, like a dragon’s egg should be. This citrus was so impressive that people stopped me while I was walking around cradling it and asked where I’d gotten it.

We kept it enthroned on the vase, in honor.

It met it’s demise when Bronwen and I combined it with blood oranges, advacado, greens, olives (I would leave those off next time, though B would use them again.) and a lovely dressing for a marvelous dinner salad. The skin was much thicker than I expected –almost half an inch deep.

Deer near the Rogue River have special ninja powers. I took photographic evidence.

I took this last June when Dustin, Mom, Dad and I were wandering around Portland. Sometimes I have a wave of missing my parents and the trees. Note the irony that a photo with absolutely no greenery inspires nostalgia for Northwest flora…