Jasmine flower

I just made the prettiest tea ever. I've seen the flower teas, but never bought any because I thought they were a bit expensive. But a lady from work went to China and brought back some just for me. Look how pretty this jasmine tea is.

Here are the tea "buds"...

And, here is a bud after a few minutes in the hot water. It just slowly unfurled. So cool!

And in full bloom...

And out, draining...

Not only was it pretty, the tea was good too. I reckon I could call that a tea event for me - watching it come alive like that. Ah, the simple things...

Today is a kitchen day. I just made a pumpkin apple pie and am prepping for supper tonight and some things I want to make tomorrow. I also want to make Mike some healing hand balm and will try to squeeze that in tomorrow since I have a vacation day... yep, another vacation day! They are too few and far between.