a good walk, then tea

 Heidi and I met for tea at Gini's yesterday. First I walked to/fro on Sacramento Street which is nice and flat (no hills) and features expensive stores and restaurants.  Their tree is beautiful and the tea was most welcome. I love their ancestor wall ~ always very interesting with a new baby addition this year.

a tea a day

 This is the BEST advent calendar ever from dear Dancing Jen. Every afternoon I take a little break with a different tea ~ packaged beautifully and totally unusual and delicious. Thank you!

Super Tea Saturday

 Five women and one doodle dog (Holly) enjoyed tea yesterday. We didn't really need the fireplace, but it makes everything so much nicer. The young women (Lilly and Heather) are busy and stressed with their careers and social lives so it was good to have catch-up time. Heidi, Laurence and I smiled and listened and appreciated not being quite so busy.

trashing and tea time

 Here we have Luca the trash elf (age 4.5) and neighbor Heidi in the top photo. The streets are soooooo much cleaner than they used to be with the hundreds of happy citizens out picking up litter along the ocean and in the neighborhoods. Then you finally meet Lily in the baseball cap who came over for tea yesterday afternoon with Heidi. She wanted her photo taken by the wallpaper. Go figure...

sweet tea

 Heidi celebrated her childhood memories using her mother's china and her pink tablecloth. She included a black and white photo (which you can't see very well, sorry) of her mom and aunts and made a little cake for the "just because" gathering. Laurence and I were grateful guests indeed. 

trash and tea

 Bottom photo first. I met Emma at Manny's for trash removal and then coffee and catch-up. There were so many of us that we old timers asked for, and received, a really easy almost spotless street. This movement is really catching on. Then home to change into clean clothes for the SF International Tea Festival down at the Ferry Building. Neti's friend Carmen (in blue) was our hostess and the 2nd floor was packed with tea and customers and I'm still not used to crowds so I didn't stay too long. But I was impressed with all the interest in tea and chai and yes, my coffee tastes exquisite this morning.