Strawberry Picking Time Tuesday Cuppa Tea

Hello and welcome to Tuesday Cuppa Tea on a wet day...but warmer weather expected by tomorrow!  

I hope you had a lovely Father's Day in your home...ours was a mixed blessing, as we got a call from the kids of course, but when our daughter called to wish her Dad a Happy Father's Day...it was from the hospital...where our youngest grandson...who just turned 21 a week ago...had a diabetic out-of-control episode and had to be in the hospital for stabilization. He was diagnosed at 6 months of age, and does very well, but sometimes things just go haywire, for no reason they can pinpoint.   But got a text just a few minutes ago that he was stable and they could take him home. I am so grateful for modern medicine...he would not be alive without it and he is the sweetest boy imaginable! We are so grateful for answered prayer!

It is definitely early summer here in the Pacific Northwest...proven by the opening of the strawberry fields in town. That was the inspiration of my teacup post today...but I had to use a teacup I have already shared...because the other strawberry themed one I had planned to share sold and was shipped before I could photograph it! 

So...I am repeating this strawberry teacup.  This is one of my favorite teacups in a pattern called Strawberry Hill that was made by Wedgwood, England between 1957 and 1978. I love the shape...and I love strawberries!

Strawberries are an early spring harbinger and essential around here. We drove the 2 miles to the coast last week to a U-Pick organic farm called Graymarsh Farm here in Sequim...

You can see the Olympic Mountains of Olympic National Park, still with some snow field. The other photo looks to the water of the Strait of Juan De Fuca.  It was mid week, and early in the day, but we weren't the only pickers....

A little later...next moth in fact, the Graymarsh U-Pick lavender opens up, the week before our annual Sequim Lavender Farm Faire, but the crop is turning purple nicely...

Then it was time to slice, sugar just a bit and serve with a homemade non dairy angel food cake...

Sometimes we serve it with the non dairy coconut ice cream I get at our organic market. Yummm!  And thinking of strawberries...

This is a birthday treat I received at the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, BC Canada a couple of years ago.....

A cute little tuxedo dressed 3 tone chocolate covered strawberry, white and dark fudge and a chocolate truffle with a little plastic tube and bulb inserted into it. We hadn't seen that before. The tube was filled with a liqueur. We weren't quite sure how to eat it though. Oh well...we are pretty provincial folks...  But I love the little tuxedo!

Several months ago, I received a letter from Judith of Lavender Cottage enclosing 2 Canadian postage commemorative stamps of Queen Elizabeth II....

The stamps were issued in anticipation of Sept. 9, 2015, when Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch...replacing Queen Victoria. Sweet Judith knew I would treasure these...such a thoughtful gift! Thank you Judith! I realized I have never shared this thoughtful gift, but with all my royal postings lately, I went and found them in my curio cabinet where they live.

Also a Happy 34th Birthday for William, Duke Of Cambridge who's birthday is Tuesday, June. 21st...

Thanks for joining me for my Tuesday Cuppa Tea...and strawberries!  I am joining...

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