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Do not hoard green tea. Guilty.

That said, although this tea is not from this Spring, it is still beautiful, green as in new shoot-like, sweet, buttery, and slightly nutty. Miraculously, it has preserved its character if not its depth, finer flavour layering, and longevity. Such a beautiful tea, regardless of my neglect.

This is going directly on my Spring focus pile.

Happy Easter, Everyone! And Happy Passover! And Happy Spring and all the fresh and beautiful things!

My afternoon/evening cuppa. I’ve been thinking maple a lot lately but haven’t been drawn to maple black tea as I had been overdosing on that combination not too long ago.

The woodiness of houjicha soothed by the white is an awesome carrier for the flavour mix.

Regardless, my results are always delicious. So there’s that. I must be doing something right.

My tea tastes are so fickle.

Throughout most of the year, I am all over the black teas—the maltier, the better—with the occasional oolong thrown in. Then, come Spring, or what feels like Spring, boom! And I begin with one or two cups of white or green and suddenly, I am on a white and/or green roll. For as long as that lasts.

So here I am with this delight. The chai treatment on green bases doesn’t usually speak to me. Here, however, the flavouring is all nutmeg and allspice, eggnog-like, with the subtle real pear peeking through. A bit of cream. I detect the slightest bit of citrus too. The green base is present, but gentle. Gunpowder works for me, really and truly. Really a lovely thing, this.

edit—Just checked Anne’s note on the tea and ooops, no nutmeg here despite what I thought was here. To me, the nutmeg came up with the eggnog feeling of this tea. Also, the base is gunpowder and Chun Mee. Well, that apparently works for me too. :)

Another rainy day and I am grateful. The rain muffles the neighbours and calms me, a more ideal combination for sleep. Our team won again in hockey. Hurray! Less in city pride, though go Leafs go, than miraculously I did not hear the neighbours shrieking in the street all night. So YAY!

And thank goodness for fine tea. Really.

I apologize for my rant. Having said that, ranting, rain, and a fine cup of tea, nothing like it. At the appropriate time, a stellar combination.

Really ancient in coconut years :)

However, coconut delicious with the slightest hint of pineapple. Maybe delicious enough to get me out the door to the laundromat in the pouring rain.

Life is really something sometimes, yanno?

It’s been a long hard slog in many respects here and sometimes, I just can’t do it. Yesterday was like that. This morning too. I just wanted to shut the blinds and hide in bed. Regardless, I forced myself up and out today, though I have to admit, it was an extraordinary effort.

This is the tea that I brought with me.

Once I was out in the world, some lovely happenings happened.

Someone gave me two delicious home baked toffee cookies.
Another extremely shy someone gave me his email and suggested I keep in touch after the group that we were both in ended.
Someone else invited me to a religious service that was by chance being set up in the restaurant I was in. (I didn’t stay for it, but it was nice to be asked.)
Someone else told me that I was the most fun ever dancing partner in our cohort.
And the weather was warm and a bit wonky and humid ( but it was definitely not winter).

All of these interactions, and this tea too, were gentle and kind. Most excellent when one is feeling particularly fragile.

And as they say, tomorrow is another day.

Packets of this were available, in addition to camomile and peppermint tea bags, at my meditation session last night. I went with this and some added milk.

And then, the whole experience was made even more lovely with a bowl of super sweet individually wrapped milk chocolate bunnies and another bowl of crunchy crust chocolate nut mini Easter eggs.

Is it really possible that people who honk their horn once to alert the ones that they are picking up at 5 am think that no one else is going to hear this in the still city at dawn?

Thank goodness for tea. Seriously.

I appreciate that the flavouring is just as gentle as the base tea itself. Hence, the two meld into each other seamlessly. Almost like an black currant icing sugar drizzle over the Bai Mu Dan.