LAST DAYS OF SUMMER for "Tea In The Garden"

We have been having very cool nights with temperatures down into the 50's and the air this morning feels like fall is just around the corner.  I hope you can join me in the garden:

We are using my vintage Spode Coffee

 Pot for a teapot today.  I hope you

 don't mind

 that it isn't

a teapot.

I am playing with that aperture setting on the camera although I realize I really am just guessing at things.

I tend to prefer older cups and saucers but when Herman Dodge closed a few years ago I decided to keep these two English Garden trios.

I have noticed my camera seems to do better when it isn't as sunny out - like today.  Of course, it is hard to find a non sunny day here!  Which is certainly nothing to 

complain about.

VINTAGE CANISTERS for "Friends Sharing Tea"

Good Monday morning and I hope you had a delightful Easter weekend!  The promise of spring is here and even though it is cool out we are seeing our backyard grass turn green and bulbs and plants starting to pop out of the ground. 

 I recently found a set of vintage tin canisters for $18.00 that I am sharing.  Many of the other items I have shared in the past too.

I believe these are called 

crinoline lady silhouettes.

Our hearts turn toward springtime teas now and I know many of you have this favorite tea book which is now published by Benjamin Press. 

I seem to love Tuscan cups and saucers and have three rosebud ones here plus a Clarence and a Shelley.

The coffee pot above is Spode and the teapot which is a favorite is Crown Dorset.

SUMMER WINDING DOWN for "Tea In The Garden"

On this last Tuesday of August there is a change in the air! 

 Fall is coming....time for some Tea In The Garden.

I've invited a few friends over - hope you don't mind company!  I don't see any hummingbirds this morning.  I think they have begun their long journey to Mexico for the winter.

Pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy a 

few moments of solitude here in the garden!

I thought we could sit here and catch up on

 a stack of magazines that I am behind reading.

Johanna will remember the pillow cover my

 Mother In Law gave me. My Mother In Law had it from her German parents.  She said that the English translation is:

"Save each other from heartache- the time you have together is short. 

Even if you are united by many years - one day they will seem like minutes to you."

VINTAGE COTTAGE IN THE KITCHEN

Every week I think to myself that next week I will really have time to spend on my blog.  This is a joke!  Ha, ha, ha!  Let's all laugh together.  I never have more time.  Today I am sharing a few photos:

We will be getting our warmer weather back today after having very cool weather and almost cold at night.  It has rained and rained.  We haven't had anything like this amount of rain for many years.

Those of you who follow my blog already know that this is my kitchen buffet which my husband painted earlier this year during the winter.  The coffee pot and cream and sugar are English Copeland Spode "Dubarry" and the teapot which I have shared before is a Sadler.