Drinking the stillness of the forest, listening to the birds, slowing further into winter with every sip. #tea #teasky #winter

Dark tea for the dark of the year, 2004 Menghai Tuocha, notes of agarwood & a bitter hint that slides into sweet, velvety broth, delightful all around. #teasky #tea #wintermood #puerh #shou

Watching beauty fade steam swirl the slow transition to stillness is there a moment when autumn ceases winter begins or is it a slow borderless smearing one into the other until one day you notice the barren cold doesn’t stop #poetry #poem #tea #seasons #autumn #winter

Old life lets go, & in doing so feeds new life — may what is breaking in me now nourish the me I am becoming in all this rain. #mushroom #shroomscrolling #autumn #lettinggo #poem #poetry

Made a long, low temperature decoction of chaga, then used it to brew lao cha tou in a thermos overnight. Just the deeply comforting cuppa I needed this crisp November morning on the porch. #teasky #tea #puer #thermos #chaga #shou

Look up! There’s a lion in the tree! What are you doing in The City? #lionsmane #mushroom #shroomscrolling #citytree #unexpected

I love the November trees who are still turning, touch of green here & there, what’s the hurry? #autumngold #fall #tree #latebloomer #nohurry

Shou pu’er & cranberry pumpkin seed biscotti on this perfectly crisp autumn day. #tea #teasky #treats #pumpkin #puer

This tree stands bleeding out, poised at the gateway between autumn & winter each year — preternaturally red, shouting, “I am still alive!! & this world achingly beautiful no matter how bare my black branches become” #autumn #red #poem #poetry #fallleaves

Rainy day tisane, grandpa style fermented fireweed. Like rooibos & red tea had a love child, set cozy to maximum, so delightfully warming! #tea #teasky #herbaltea #rainyday

November leaves — almost all fallen, broken down, becoming mud beneath my boots. Reds & oranges fade to brown & the glorious display of autumn surrenders day by day, bit by bit, one last exhale before winter’s sleep. #autumn #leaf #poem #poetry #fall #endings #leaves

The sky lit a candle to the Ancestors at dusk, yesterday & silence drew us in for a moment (infinity) we stood enraptured connected haunted — until the light shifted & let us go #sunset #ancestors #poem #poetry #graveyard

Mostly drinking grandpa style shou on the porch lately, taking in the fall colors & chatting with hummingbirds. #teasky #tea #fall #porchlife

#shroomscrolling #mushrooms #amanitamuscaria #autumn

my words are hiding. this is worth a thousand of them, anyway, or so I’m told. shifting season vibes for days. #fall #autumn #orange #crow #fallvibes

#autumn #asters #bloomscrolling

spent leaves damp from a rainburst glittering diamonds in the sun for a moment before the wind before the sunset before a passerby scatters the tableau & time moves forward once again #ginkgo #autumn #leaves #aftertherain #poem

Every year this red maple goes full on autumn before the other trees even notice it’s fall. I love their enthusiasm. #fall #autumn #leaves #early

Cloud’s feet, endlessly captivating #tea #teasky #swirl

Special anniversary edition cup from Northwest Tea Festival this year, so glad I was able to attend & see so many of my tea friends! #teafest #teasky #tea

Only tea service I managed during our whirlwind tour of Ireland, second to last day in Dublin. #teasky #traveltea #hoteltea #puerh

The light is so strange filtered through wildfire haze & grief — aggressively golden, it curls the steam from my cup into a parody of smoke above hot leaf water, while the silent ursine roar of protest goes unheeded. #teasky #wildfire #steam #poem #poetry #landback

Starry pollen bee in the heart of the flower nebula, still so much beauty all around, take it in, take it in… #bee #pollen #bloomscrolling #flower

I’m haunted. 20 years ago tomorrow Hurricane Katrina changed my everything. It was the most terrible blessing I’ve ever survived. I am not the same human, for better & worse both. #ptsd #hurricanekatrina #survivor #nola #film

Cup of light, side of snapdragon #teasky #tea #oolong #light

How is it already dahlias again? #bloomscrolling #dahlias #ladybug

It’s hard not to hoard my favorite oolongs, now that the seller is no longer shipping to the US because of tariff fuckery. I choose to enjoy them now, because you never know what tomorrow will bring. Perhaps they are even sweeter for it. #teasky #oolong #beforeandafter

Sometimes there just isn’t enough tea to bring me fully awake. A human can try, though!! #teasky #puer #cantwakeup

Happy as a bee on thistle should absolutely be a thing. #bloomscrolling #bees #thistle

Sour plum & lemon manoomin genmaicha, I love tasting the tea experiments of others, goves me ideas… #teasky #manoomin #genmaicha

Breathless — so Beautiful, but also too high for my sea level lungs. Either way the view leaves me swooning, craving more, & in utter awe. #mountains #bloomscrolling #sky #poem

Backcountry campsite, tea somehow tastes best outdoors, even grandpa thermos style. #tea #teasky #camping

Even the thorniest of us still burst into bloom when the monsoons fill our bellies & the sun’s caress coaxes our hearts onto sleeves like a sunrise in the cool borderlands where day & night conspire in cool whispers #bloomscrolling #cactus #poem

Captured once again by the light of the sun as She turns the monsoon clouds into spun sugar caramel, the distant downpour into a rainbow of hope, the moon into a gentle nightlight — silent awe warms my heart, fills my deep well, & now I can go on. #rainbow #monsoon #sunset #poem

Magnolia orchid scented oolong, able to get my usual spring water brand so it tastes like it should, sweet & syrupy, cooly refreshing. #oolong #teasky #water

Sticky rice shou pu’er, dark & lovely. Okay so it’s 103°F/39°C outside, warming tea might be unintuitive, but I’m enjoying it nevertheless. Stay cool, tea friends! #teasky #tea #puer

Ah, shou pu’er, you never steer me wrong! This tiny-but-mighty tuocha can stand up to the most mediocre water & still deliver bittersweet earthy love. (Here’s a better shiboridashi view, @mismatched.bsky.social ) #shoupuer #teasky #traveltea

All the fire & marmalade of my heart Spread vivid across the sky beneath the dissipating thunderstorm — clouds spent, earth watered with grateful tears, tomorrow’s promise of green carried on the breeze, elated & drowsy with love. #poem #monsoon #sunset #orange

More oolong please! Keeping me cool as temperatures near the triple digits, my poor PNW system is shocked… #teasky #bloomscrolling #oolong #staycool

Contrast therapy #rainbow #monsoon #desert

Hello, desert friend! #bloomscrolling #desert #sacred

Favorite tea, different water, like meeting this Wild Purple for the first time. Water is everything. I prefer what I steep with at home, but it’s good to have the reminder. #teasky #puerh #water

One from the vaults, as I’ve been busy as this lil’ bee & not out taking pictures. #bloomscrolling #pink #bee

Feeling the summertime urge for high mountain oolong, keeps me going when the going gets hot. #teasky #oolong #summertime

Weirdly in the mood for roasted oolong today, matches the golden sunlight playing on my tea table today. #teasky #oolong #sunshine

Stay open — the sun may be fierce but oh how the light feeds us all #californiapoppies #poem #bloomscrolling

Beautiful tea house lotus flowers, so serene, thank you for showing me how to keep my roots in the nourishing muck & my face reaching towards the sun. #bloomscrolling #lotus #teahouse #teasky

Forest tea to help me reset, shou pu’er, sagan daliya, chaga, & fir tips, none of the flavors dominates, just creates a complex chord of pine & wood, vanilla & spice, so good!

Gardenia scent oolong, thick broth, huigan for days, dash of cassia at the back of the sip, it’s like drinking summer, luscious. #teasky #oolong #gardenia

Unfurling slowly in the tender space held by the rhythms of this cosmic earth. #bloomscrolling #rose #poem