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Pink Trees and Cherry Tea!
Happy Spring,
Dear Friends!
Today, I am steeping one of my favourite teas – Kyoto Cherry Rose scented with natural cherry and rose flavours. It is pale yellow in colour with a heavenly aroma and sweet taste.
Would you like a cuppa in my prized vintage China pattern? “Apple Blossom” is a stunning profusion of pink-petaled apple trees. I LOVE this pattern! I found it when I wasn’t looking at a roadside antiques barn while vacationing on Prince Edward Island a few summers ago! It was such a thrilling and unexpected find. Isn’t that always the way! I think I must have danced right out the door with my newspaper-wrapped bundles of joy! I hope one day to stumble across a matching teapot to complete the set. I will just have to keep on treasure hunting…
I LOVE this pattern’s history in that it was insightfully commissioned in the early 1960’s by the Chair of Nova Scotia’s Apple Blossom Festival, then in just its second year. This enduring pattern is an artist’s rendition of springtime in Annapolis Valley when the apple blossoms are exploding all over the countryside. All these years later, the festival remains a much-loved annual tradition there.
I LOVE, too, pink-flowering trees! But you probably could have guessed that already? Each spring, I make a special pilgrimage to a particular street in the heart of our city that is lined with gracious century-old homes on handsome, mature lots. One home on the street stands out from the rest. Along its perimeter marches a legion of stately Japanese Cherry trees. Their entangled branches, thickly laden with exquisite fluffy pink blooms, reach way out over the hefty black fence that rings the property, and bend down to the street like low-hanging frothy clouds of cotton candy! Delicious, pure pink abundance! My feet and heart always dance together at the sight. It makes my day every time!
Wherever these frothy pink specimens grow in abundance, there is an intense ‘Bloom Watch’ and visitors queue by the hundreds to see the magic of the cherry trees unfurl in a fleeting spectacular show of renewal. Their pink vapour of nature’s perfection fill the landscapes with intense beauty, wonderment and emotion.
To the Japanese, the fallen petals of the cherry blossom symbolize a soldier who has died in battle long before his time. But Spring blooms also represent strength, rebirth and hope for the future…
Audrey Hepburn said, “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow!” She was so right about that. To plant pink trees is to beautify our communities and to help grow a future without breast cancer…I believe! The seeds of Pink Days In Bloom’s “The Pink Tree Project” in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Atlantic Region are just beginning to be sowed…
Those of you who have been following my blog for some time already may know that I am a breast cancer “Thriver” and that when I was on medical leave a few years ago recovering from treatments, I decided to combine my love of gardening with the overwhelming need to do something, anything, to help fight this disease in some way…








Linda
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. – Ancient Chinese proverb
Hope yours is a blue-sky kind of day…
I’m happy to be sharing today in honour of Mother’s Day at Inspiration Monday, Make It Pretty Monday, Tea Time Tuesday, Return to Loveliness, Martha’s Favourite, The Scoop, Inspire Me Tuesday, Nifty Thrifty Tuesday, Do Tell Tuesday, What’s It Wednesday, Wordless Wednesday, Wake UpWednesday, What We Accomplished Wednesday, Before and After Wednesday, Hope in Every Season, Cottage Style Party, Home and Garden Thursday, Share Your Cup Thursday, Simple and Sweet Friday, Feathered Nest Friday, Show and Tell Friday, Fabulously Creative Friday, Shabbilicious Friday, Saturday Show Off, What To Do Weekends, Pink Saturday, The Charm of Home, Bouquet of Talent!