Is the teacup and saucer disappearing from our arsenal of potable toters? Do we no longer have time for the more genteel and somewhat slower pace that lifting teacup to lips and setting it gently back down on the saucer practically demands? Or are we just so connected to dunking a teabag in a mug …
Day: May 4, 2011
Tea Bonsai
Despite my consistently disastrous history with house plants, I’ve always gotten on rather well with bonsai. Maybe it’s because I’m a forestry graduate; they just don’t seem to die on me like all the non-tree-based plants. Bonsai is the art of growing trees and woody shrubs in such a way that their size and form …