tea to go

owner alice cravens allows the quiet. slow pleasures of tea time on foot. glass mason jar filled with locally grown lemon verbena. traveling in a cardboard holder fashioned by the kindest man working the tea bar. accompanied by a homemade lemon biscotti and fresh whipped cream for dipping.

making tea at home.

reading water.

modern tea. hayes valley. san francisco, california.

heath ceramics

mougins and the french riviera

'Mougins is an enchanting medieval village on the French Riviera situated between the lower Alps and the Bay of Cannes. The village is a picturesque hilltop town surrounded by 15th century ramparts and a fortified gate. These stone walls preserved the village from devastation and destruction during the 16th century. From the 18th century on, Mougins flourished from the production of its olives and jasmine and crops of its vineyards and rose fields.

Pablo Picasso, Yves St. Laurent, Jean Cocteau, Isadora Duncan, Christian Dior, Winston Churchill and Catherine Deneuve all frequented the village.'

meandering alleys strung with lights and air filled with the fragrance of roses and herbs. a delicious steaming bouillabaise.

evian wishes and croissant dreams

the adventures of a blue chair

this is the garden:colours come and go,

by: e.e. cummings

this is the garden:colours come and go,
frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing
strong silent greens silently lingering,
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
This is the garden:pursed lips do blow
upon cool flutes within wide glooms,and sing
(of harps celestial to the quivering string)
invisible faces hauntingly and slow.

This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death's blade lie many a flower curled,
in other lands where other songs be sung;
yet stand They here enraptured,as among
the slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.

From "Tulips and Chimneys", 1923