Tea with a capital T

Tea takes me back when people had time to sit down and have a cup of tea in a tea cup with a saucer, an oilcloth covered table with a glass sugar bowl in the middle. Green tea at one Grandma's house and black tea at another Grandma's. I remember I was always allowed to have tea, coffee was said to stunt a kid's growth but tea was okay. It was great sitting with the grown up ladies sipping tea.
Now you can get Huckleberry flavored decaffeinated ginseng laced tea in a styrofoam cup to drink alone while jogging, the art of tea-drinking has lost a lot!

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
.......Henry James, "The Portrait Of A Lady"

The mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
.......George Gissing, "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft