Mountain Tea Parties

Surrounded with   huge hydrangeas and blue skies

Garage sale silver tea pot and Biltmore tea cups and spoons

Our copies of the Biltmore china...... tea cups

The Breakfast room tea for two

The whole two weeks Melanie and I were in the mountains, we had tea at 4:00 pm.  We sat in several different places to make it fun.  The first day we  sat in the side yard under the gazebo.  One day was the front porch.  On a rainy day we had tea in the sun room.  Other days we just sat in front of the TV with our sewing and the last day we had cleaned up the sewing area and had tea at the pretty breakfast room table.   Until we went to Asheville to the Biltmore House, we had used one of Dottie's tea pots and two blue cups and saucers.  While we were at the Biltmore House, we each bought a tea cup/saucer and demi spoon like the Vanderbilt's china as our souvenir from our trip.   The last Saturday we were there, Melanie says" do you want to go to town and see what is open?"  I was ready to go.  We came across a couple of garage sales and low and behold...I found a beautiful " Rogers" silver tea pot for the right price.  It was even polished!!!  So our last days in the mountains we had tea in style.  Pretty china tea cups and a silver tea pot!  Didn't we feel special!!!!