Hot Tea

Some of the most decorative and elaborate dishes are meant for tea... teapots, teacups, saucers, sugar bowls, cream pitchers... So pretty... so dainty... I do enjoy drinking out of a pretty cup or glass.

Now, what can I say about the hot tea? Let me think... It's brownish, that's one thing. 

The thing that bothers me about hot tea is that you're expected to drink it. 

I don't have anything against hot tea, but if you could just add heaps of sugar and then enough ice to make it really cold... or even better, if you could pour it out and fill the pretty cup with something else... Like maybe coke or orange juice or hot cocoa or cold milk... that would improve it so much!

Original Oil Painting on 5"x 7" Wrapped Canvas.
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Sweet Iced Tea

Y'all can find all kinds of lists about living in or visiting The South. (Things You Should Know about the South... What Every Southerner Knows... What I Learned When I Moved to the South.... Best Southern Foods... Traditions of the South...) They may all vary just a little, but there's one thing that'll show up on every... single... list... Sweet Iced Tea or Sweet Ice Tea.  And, it'll probably be number one on that list.

Unsweetened tea??? What??? No...

A cup of hot tea??? What??? No...

Y'ain't havin' that!

It's a strange thing when you realize that something that's such a normal part of life is only normal where you live... not in the whole world!  It's like discovering you speak with an accent that you didn't even know you had!

I did this painting in response to Sara's Inspiration Image, Friend for Tea, on this month's Inspiration Collaboration. I wonder... If, no when Sara and I actually meet in person one day, will we each have a cup of hot tea or a glass of iced tea?  I suppose that will depend on where that meeting happens. 

Original Oil Painting on 10"x 10" Wrapped Canvas

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