tea gratitude

Gong Fu in motion

Had a fantastic weekend, and it had everything (and nothing) to do with tea. Treated myself to a tea session at Laifufu Teesalon on Saturday, and it put me in just the right frame of mind to savour the rest of that day and the next.

 Si Ji Chun Oolong leaves

Drank a delicious Si Ji Chun Oolong from Nanton, Taiwan.  The tea was relatively highly oxidised and since I normally go for Oolongs that're lightly oxidised, this was also a nice break from the ordinary (Here, to the left, were the leaves beforehand).

I was thrilled, as always, with Laifufu, which I found out means 'Das Glück soll kommen' (luck/happiness is coming).

Like I say, this was the way I eased into a few both relaxing and productive days. Which if I'm forthright, is exactly why I love drinking tea. One of the many reasons.

I can get so much done while drinking tea, and it somehow calms me without interfering with my making progress.

Also I'm really enjoying the tea community and my little corner of it. I suppose I could assume it was understood how grateful I am to have found all of you tea bloggers and tea obsessives, as a result of this blog and The Association of Tea Bloggers and Tea Trade and Steepster and and and...

But Springtime is busting out all over, and I've decided now is as good a time as any to go all wobbly. I adore you folk, and my life has definitely benefitted from our acquaintance(s). Thanks for everything and here's to much more of the same.

the very exhausted leaves after the fact

Has it already been a whole year?

Just went back and looked at when I started this teablog exactly, and noticed that yesterday was exactly one year. My first anniversary.

How much has changed in a year. It's rather unbelievable when I think too long about it.

I still feel there's so much to learn when it comes to tea. Am glad I got fascinated by a topic that was multi-faceted enough that I've never come close to running out of ideas. I've certainly written about some things with a very loose connection to tea, but somehow managed to tie them back in to tea drinking/tea culture.

There is one piece of particularly good news to share:

I was recently accepted into The Association of Tea Bloggers. I wanted to wait and announce the news when I figured out how to attach the association's seal/badge on the front page of this blog, but that hasn't happened yet. I thought the one year anniversary was a perfect opportunity to tell you the good news.

Nice, eh? Thanks for all your support.