still life with white teapot

Pictured: Still Life with White Teapot -- Francis Campbell Bolleau Cadell, 1913 (from www.the-athenaeum.org)

the power of tea

Steam rises from a cup of tea and we are wrapped in history, inhaling ancient times and lands, comfort of ages in our hands.

Faith Greenbowl

Pictured:  The Samovar -- William McGregor Paxton, 1926 (Wikimedia Commons)

Tea Cup Ballet -- Olive Cotton, 1935 

(image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

The Red Tea Set -- Hermann Max Pechstein, 1916

wonder if she's drinking russian caravan

Pictured:  The Tea Merchant's Wife (Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, 1918)

fortune telling

What soggy wisdom lies at the bottom of your cup?  Check out Madame Z's cyber Victorian-style reading of the tea leaves and dictionary of symbols here.

Pictured:  Tea Leaves (William McGregor Paxton, 1909)

random tazo tea wisdom

From one of Tazo's Awake Tea's tea bag tags:  Time to turn over a new leaf.  Preferably a tea leaf.

Featured Art:  The Tea (Mary Cassatt, ca. 1880 @ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

random yogi tea wisdom

From one of Yogi Tea's Tahitian Vanilla Hazelnut teabag tags:  Unite with your higher self and create a friendship.

Featured Art:  Mystic Allegory or Tea -- Maurice Denis, 1892