T Stands for April Events

 Hi everyone. Happy Monday night/ Tuesday and happy T day. 

Last week I had a somewhat quiet week. Those weeks make the best art weeks though. 😀

I watched a lot of snow melt too, and it was ice out week on the big lake near us. This was the first time I ever remember the big lake becoming ice free before most of the little lakes. We're wondering if that happened because ice-in on the big lake was very  late this year (not until February),  and only the smaller lakes were able to get a really thick layer of ice. 

I can't take credit for this photo. My husband snapped it when he was at his Mom's house Sunday night to turn off a switch he realized he'd accidentally turned on (and since no one is living there no one would be around to switch it off). You can see the ice and pretty sunset colors. I didn't know he was such a  good photographer. Smile.

Ice out is an important spring milestone in my area because it means spring is really here. Although I must admit I still have a little bit of snow left in my backyard.

For a while now it's been tough with the spring melt and some  rain to find places to walk. The trails  (since most are unpaved) are still wet and muddy in places, and the tides don't always work at the beach unless you want to walk before dawn or after dark. Instead of walking around parking lots because nowhere else was quite up to par,  last week my walking friend and I decided to do something different. We did something  that's been on our to do list. We went to Salem, Massachusetts and visited the Peabody-Essex Museum.

I've visited some of the special exhibits at the Peabody-Essex several times, but I've never taken a  tour of the whole museum before. It's a really eclectic mix of exhibits with lots of Asian art, some Native and Colonial American art, some modern glass, some ecological creations as well as some fashion. It was a fun visit, and I have many things I can share.

For today's post let me take you on a museum T tour. I am linking up for T day over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . All you need to join is to share your drink related posts.

This table is all set for us to sit down and enjoy our drinks.

This coffee urn is full for those of you who drink coffee.

And there's tea, sugar and cream for those of you who prefer that drink over coffee. Or if you really want a lot of coffee and don't want to keep getting up, the coffee server is here also. And of course you might want cream and sugar in your coffee too.

Perhaps Colonial America isn't your thing. Or maybe the tea isn't very good because they threw so much of it overboard in Boston during the big tea party a couple of hundred years ago.

If you feel like something more exotic, here are some T choices for you in the Yin Yu Tang house, a complete structure transported from China and  then reconstructed at the museum. 

And if you'd  rather wine and play drinking games, here are some table cards for a Chinese drinking game as well as a cup for your wine. Don't pick the card that says drink 2 glasses if you want to remain sober-smile.

This guy is named Mr.No Body. He's offering  a T day drink if nothing else has yet  excited you.

Perhaps your style is more modern and you'd like to be in a modern cafe somewhere. There's a very cool glass teapot on the top right of the next photo. (And some gorgeous glass bowls too.)

And if none of the T styles I have shown speaks to you, perhaps you prefer your drink in  something from Japan. I'm not sure how this pot works, but I love the view of Mount Fuji.

Sadly I cut off a bit of the black teapot that was with it in this next photo. It was shaped like a turtle.  Luckily there's enough tea bowls at the bottom of this photo for more than just me to enjoy a cup of Matcha tea. (Actually, I'll skip the matcha so there's enough bowls for 3 others.)

Do you need to travel to the teahouse in style? This is a Japanese litter for wealthy women. Two men would transport you in your litter to the teahouse or wherever you were going.

But you had better be small because that seat in the left corner is very tiny. Of course you'd need room for your kimono.

And if none of these work for you, you can join me for my favorite teapot of the day. I'll take my T from one of these spouts.

That's all for me. Have a wonderful T day and week ahead.