November Tea/Garden Journal

It is time for my monthly feature the tea/garden visual journal. Surprisingly there is still something blooming in the garden.  I went outside yesterday and found a pansy.   The fall leaves are just about all gone but this is very unusual year. We have just peaked in color and had our first frost this week and that is about a month late for where I live.  

We are now getting into the 20's at night and the smell of wood smoke from different home's fireplaces has filled the crisp night air.  I had some beautiful sage still in the garden, rosemary, and rose hips.  I will save the herbs for thanksgiving dinner.  I had a gorgeous ornamental cabbage on the front porch this fall and I chopped it off yesterday for this picture and I am saving it in a bowl of water to create a thanksgiving centerpiece. 

I used this cup last year when these maple leaves were so pretty.  I love the fall colors in it.  The teacup is by Grace's Teaware.

I saved a little pumpkin too, I should make a pie with it this week.  The illustration is by Tasha Tudor out of one of my favorite books she published, A Time to Keep.  The page reads, "No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!" quote by Thomas Hood.

In November how does your garden grow or sleep?

Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving this week here in the states.

Sherry

Home Sweet Home #296

Hello and welcome to Home Sweet Home!  This week I had a autumn tea in He Restoreth Me. 

I am in full baking mode this month with this post Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Topping.

There are so many great posts at the Home Sweet Home party each week.  These are a few that caught my eye.

The Charm of a Store-bought Picnic by Rattleridge Farm.

Pumpkin Sugar Cookie Bars with Buttercream Frosting and Toffee Bits by Cooking with K. 

Friday Goodwill Gestures by Debby Goes Shabby.

Hutch Decorated for Autumn w/ Brown Transferware Reveal by Nancy's Daily Dish.

I am really lucky to have all of your amazing posts because it is you who make the Home Sweet Home party so special! Thank you to everyone who joins me at Home Sweet Home! It is wonderful to have you here. 

Sherry

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He Restoreth Me

It is time to refresh our souls for a cup of tea today.  The fall color is just about peak here.  The maple trees are the prettiest.

My tea mug is Stechcol by Gracie Bone China.  The teapot is Price & Kensington.  The oak leaf tea towel was from a review I did of tea towels and it came from, All Tea Towels in the UK. 

For all of my Tasha Tudor fans, and I know there are a lot of you, this little book is the The Lord is My Shepherd Twenty-Third Psalm, illustrated line-by-line by Tasha Tudor.  It is a tiny little book for children.  The harvest scenes in it make it fitting for the season.  

I opened my childhood bible and inside the front cover is the Twenty-Third Psalm.  It brings comfort to so many and is a sharp sword in times of vice. 

I bought two tea plants this year, Camellia sinensis, and I have brought them in for winter and they bloomed!  I can't believe how fragrant tea is.  I never noticed it outside but even the leaves smell amazingly fragrant and the blossoms even more so.  It makes a gorgeous house plant.

Sherry