Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it. – Old Irish Proverb
My Mom having a tea party with her sisters in the late 1920s.
Rooster Town Kettle by Ian August is a piece of public art marking the site of Rooster Town a close-knit community of Metis in Winnipeg from 1901-1961. The artist said it is in recognition of the way sharing tea was an important way of socializing in Rooster Town. I photographed it on a bike ride in 2020.
Having an elegant tea party with three of my friends in 2016.
I photographed this artwork by Linda Syddick in the Sydney Museum in Australia. It is called The Magi Offering Billy Tea As A Gift to Mary and Joseph.
At a tea ceremony with my Mom in Hong Kong when my parents visited us there in 2004.
Halcyon Teapot by Michael Sherrill. I photographed it when I visited an art exhibit of unique tea pots at the University of Arizona in 2020.
My sister and I having a tea party in my grandparents’ backyard in Drake Saskatchewan in the 1950s.
Afternoon Tea or The Gossips by John Everett Millais was one of my favourite art pieces at the Winnipeg Art Gallery when I worked there as a guide from 2012-2023.
Having lunch at the Jasmine Tea Room in Altona with the women I volunteer with at the MCC Thrift Store on Selkirk Avenue.
Boa-Tea by artist Michael Massie. I photographed it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2018.
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