Saturday morning is just what I needed. Tea and Mushishi will fix me.

Tonight is going to be a lot of fun

Chilling with some tea and Demon's Souls

Loving these two teacups I managed find in Suzhou. By pure luck, I came across this small shop filled to the brim with all kinds of teaware. I spent close to 15 minutes digging through this one box of teacups before picking out these two.

Back home from a trip to China with my partner. Now enjoying my new teapot and teas ☺️ ...and some video games since what feels like forever.

Pictures of Finland #40 Cloudberry in Full Bloom

Pictures of Finland #39 Sinking to the Ground

Pictures of Finland #38 Bird Cherry Blossoms

Pictures of Finland #37 Berries of Bygone Summer

Pictures of Finland #36 Clouds of the Earth

Received a beautiful book to read once I am done replaying the games 💕 Trying out theme appropriate filter settings by the lovely @whitemaged.bsky.social

Finally feeling like Spring

Zheng Yan Jin Mu Dan (正岩金牡丹) This yancha has a strong, perfume-like, flowery aroma and the usual roasty and rocky flavors. It's pretty dry, and will easily turn almost metallic, if over-brewed.

Summoning is perfect background music for reading.

Pictures of Finland #35 From Forest to Swamp and Lake

Today feels like a Lugburz kind of day.

Pictures of Finland #34 Snow-covered Conifers

Pictures of Finland #33 Edge of the Waterfall

Pictures of Finland #32 Witch's Hair

Pictures of Finland #31 Pillar of Moss

Pictures of Finland #30 Green and Yellow

Used my parents' old teapot for brewing Earl Grey. I drink it with milk.

Really enjoying this Fuding Bai Mu Dan white tea. The leaves are so beautiful and pleasant to brew.

2009 Shu Pu'er from the Liming tea factory.

Jing Dian 58 Dian Hong has the leaves rolled into beautiful straight needles. While the scent of the dry leaves clearly has smoke and tar, that's pretty much absent from the brewed tea itself. Taste has hints of autumnal apple and birch flavors combined with heavy maltiness.

Pictures of Finland #29 Flowering Heather

Been a while since I have had Taiwan Dong Ding wulong. The taste is still mellow, nutty and roasty, as I remembered. But it's definitely more dry and there's some complexity that I cannot recall tasting before. Namely roasted vegetable and a hint of flowery perfume.

Pictures of Finland #28 Freezing Sea

Any fans of Xiaguan? Here I have a 2006 Xiaguan Jia Ji Tuo Cha. I'd have a chance to buy a pack of 5 tuochas in original packaging, and I am wondering how it would age? To my understanding it's well sealed, so the aging shouldn't require a high humidity environment? Any tips? #tea #gongfucha

How about some thrice roasted aged wulong? This is 2010 Tan Bei Tie Guan Yin. Roasted over charcoals and aged in clay pots. The taste is quite roasty with heavy minerality, and hints of white chocolate. Each steeping clearly peals off a layer, transforming the flavor. Fruitiness comes out later.

Pictures of Finland #27 Frosted Pine

Pictures of Finland #26 Frozen Field

Doing this quickly before bed. Only picking one game per series

Really special tea today. Not actually a tea, since I made this one myself from fireweed leaves. I picked up the leaves, then rolled, oxidized and gently roasted them. The taste has this intense banana candy flavor and honey-like sweetness, also some grainy softness.

Today drinking dark roasted Bai Ya Qi Lan (白芽奇兰) from Fujian. The first brew is quite fruity and flowery. The roast mixed with nuttiness only starts to come out the second brew onwards and it's pretty intense. The leaves just keep releasing flavor and color no matter how many brews you make.

Pictures of Finland #25 Stream Cutting through Snowy Forest

Holy shit! This thing hasn't been together for nearly 30 years. I somehow managed to find all the pieces! Thanks for the inspiration @zenigamedirect.bsky.social

Today gave a spin for Beautiful Ghosts by Unreqvited

Pictures of Finland #24 Life on a Fallen Tree

Doing this. Games are in alphabetical order I have no patience waiting for likes, so I will instead delete them one by one, if any one likes this post

Pictures of Finland #23 Rocky Clearing

Got some dark roasted Bai Ya Qi Lan. Excited to brew it, but must have patience and wait until my sense of taste returns after this darned flu

Pictures of Finland #22 Bubbling Spring

Pictures of Finland #21 Forests of Salla

Pictures of Finland #20 Forest Lake

Pictures of Finland #19 Frosty Fen

Pictures of Finland #18 Boulder in the Forest

Pictures of Finland #17 Mossy Mushroom

Pictures of Finland #16 Cliffs of Korouoma canyon

Pictures of Finland #15 Circle of Pines