Just Peachy! I will miss them! A Peach Tea for Tuesday Cuppa Tea

This has been the best year for peaches! I have been sharing peach recipes...and we have 3 peaches leftmight be the last flat we can get of organic peaches...I think I'm gonne cry! 

And it has been record-breaking heat here on the Olympic Peninsula in NW Washington state for the last few days, and then today...20 degrees cooler, mist and rain. What a relief! The heat sent us out of the sunroom early in the day, but this was afternoon tea yesterday...my Peach Tea.

Peaches, their aroma and flavor, just shout summer, don't they?

This ceramic peach pitcher matched our ripe peaches perfectly....we have been having iced teach every day, and this is perfect for that...

I didn't have another peach colored teacup, so I just chose this yellow and green Shelley in the botanical Celandine pattern...

The pattern number is 14085 and it is in the Dainty shape with green trim. The pattern in this shape was made on and off between 1940 and 1966 when the pottery closed. The funny thing though, is in the pattern books number 14085 is the Syringa pattern and the number for the Dainty Celandine with green trim is recorded as 14055...so somebody goofed!  It happens...

I found this wonderful gold luster cream, sugar and tray set recently by Royal Winton Grimwades, England from the 1950s. 

It is classed in the books as a crossover from the Golden Age Gold Luster pieces and the Relief Molded wares. As you can see it is flower petals all over, and the fitted tray is shaped like a leaf. Cool!

I found this large hand made padded tea cozy had just the right colors to go with my Peach tea!

I added some of my Edwardian era romance postcards. I love old postcards...they really are a window to a lost age..

And I had to include one of the last of the organic peaches we have so enjoyed this summer. Only 3 left after breakfast this morning...we will check on Tuesday at our local organic farm store, but....

And our tea treat today was a slice of the Fresh Peach Streusel Bread. I found the recipe last week on the Life In My Empty Nest blog...her photos are better than mine...  The bread is on my Noritake Ravenna dishes I inherited. I recently found some more, so will be listing the duplicates in my shop, Antiques And Teacups soon.

In Royal news, we found out a week ago, that William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children will be in Victoria, BC Canada...our closest big city...4 times in September-October! Kensington Palace tweeted this timeline for thier time in British Columbia:

It says the trip will take place between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1:

• Sept. 24: Victoria, B.C.
• Sept. 25: Vancouver
• Sept. 26: Bella Bella, B.C.
• Sept. 27: Victoria and Kelowna, B.C.; Whitehorse, Yukon
• Sept. 28: Whitehorse and Carcross, Yukon
• Sept. 29: Victoria, B.C.
• Sept. 30: Haida Gwaii, B.C.
• Oct. 1: Victoria, B.C.

And...we are scheduled to be there during one of the days because we wanted to see the Mammoths! exhibit at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria! Now we are wondering if we will be able to even GET to the Museum...well, time will tell! The Museum is right across the street from the Fairmont Empress, but we imagine they will be at the Governor's home. Exciting! You can read more HERE in a Huffington Post Canada article if you want to know more...

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No Place Like Home

 Tea Cup Tuesday 
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Tuesday Cuppa Tea Victoria Portobello Road And Peach Crumble

Hello and welcome to Tuesday Cuppa Tea! It has been a HOT week here, so we have hibernated...heat is not good for my Honey. Luckily he has watched lots of the Olympics, so that has been good. My Tuesday Cuppa Tea is a bit different this week...

I have a digital subscription for Victoria magazine, but somehow was sent a print issue this time as well...the English issue, which I loved anyway...

I love that they featured in the article Prints Charming...Burleigh's Blue Calico which I have often mentioned on this blog...

And they featured one of the weekly London antiques markets...possibly the most famous...Portobello Road...se...there on the upper right are my teacups for this week...lots of them! If you didn't already know, we traveled to the UK every year for a month for 20 years to buy for our antiques businesses Antiques And Teacups and Time Was Antiques and visit family, and always spent a week in London doing the antique markets...there is basically one every day in some part of the city...and a Saturday always found us here, on Portobello Road...

This is one of the iconic images of Portobello Road...this is a recent photo from the borough website and you will see it in my other photos before it got it's spruced up paint job fr Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee...fitting for a teatime blog...don't you think?

We always stayed just a few blocks away by Kensington Palace and the Bayswater Road, so could easily walk to Portobello...but you had to get to Portobello Road market early...I swear half of London was there. As I have mentioned before, you had better not be claustrophobic...and don't mind antiquing like it's a rugby scrum at times...see the teapot with it's un-spruced paint job in the photo I took a few years before?

The streets are closed to other than foot traffic...good thing to! It's amazing how crowded it gets...but some of the strees are really cool with lots of colors...

From a VERY early morning start one year...this is a favorite antiques mall called Alice's...but the draw is really the small stalls that line both sides of the street for blocks with eveything imagineable...we always had a backpack for our "smalls" as they are called in the trade...

Definitely china heaven...but everything else as well....we often had to pass things up because we knew we couldn't carry them back to the hotel....sigh...but you had better know what you are looking for, examine everything carefully, and watch for pickpockets!

There's another street photo in the bottom left of the Victoria article....I hope you enjoyed that small tour...I'll have to do a post on some of the other weekly markets...

This week I made Peach Crumble with the last of a batch of organic peaches using a cookbook I have had since the 1970s again...I guess we were sorta considered hippies, as we tried to grow our own food and lived a very simple life. This is one of my favorite cookbooks from that time...More-With-Less Cookbook...by Doris Janzen Longacre

I photographed the back to show how it has been used over the years...it's amazing how what it touted has come back into fashion...not that it's ever left my kitchen....so I thought I would share this simple, delicious and versatile recipe that I must have made with all sorts of variations over the years...

Fruit Crumble

Serves 6

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Place in a buttered 8 X 8 baking dish: 

2 1/2 cups pared and sliced fruit like apples, cherries, or peaches

Combine in a bowl and mix to form crumbs:

1 cup flour

1 egg

dash salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup chopped nuts if desired

Sprinkle over fruit. Drizzle over the fruit:

1/4 cup melted butter

Bake 25 minutes

So thanks for joining me this week for Tuesday Cuppa Tea!
 I am joining...

No Place Like Home

 Tea Cup Tuesday 
 Bernideen’s Teatime, Cottage and Garden
Home Sweet Home

Thanks so much for joining me for tea!  Here is the linky for your tea related posts...please remember that it is SSSLLLOOOOOOWWWW but if you are patient...it's there! And I love to read your comments, and I do read every one if I can find and can get to you to visit!  If you comment from Google+…it isn’t easy...so forgive me if I am not replying to comments you so kindly leave...I am trying!

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Respite From The Heat...Remembering Kalaloch Beach

I t is an extremely haot few days for us...supposed to be 104 in Seattle on Friday! Amazing! It will be high 80s to low 90s here on the Olympic Peninsula which is very hot for us! So I wanted to share cooling photos of a weekend we recently spent at Kalaloch Beach in Olympic National Park just a few miles from us on the Pacific Coast...the West End of the Peninsula...beloved of Twilight fans...not many words, but lots of photos of a beautiful place taken over 3 days...

At the Lumber and Woodsmen Museum in Forks...cut from a single tree, now used for a bus stop...

No tea...just a chicken pizza....

The beach at Kalaloch...we stayed at the Lodge here...are littered with driftwood and logs...

The sea mist comes and goes from moment to moment...

There is a lagoon in front of the lodge that ebbs and flows with the tides...

A path takes you down from the lodge for beach access with miles of sand and driftwood....

The gazebo at the top of the path is a quiet, contemplative place...especially early in the morning and in the mist...I spent several early mornings here, mug of tea in hand as the day begun....

I hope you have a place you can retreat to for a bit of peace and coolness in the heat.