Tea, tea, tea. Tea is good for you & me.

"'This has nothing to do with the rules,' says Lori Kunkle, pouring hot vanilla tea from a fine china pot into elegantly mismatched cups in her kitchen.

"She's talking about the imagined rules and sometimes constricting propriety that often surround the business of plants and art and tea - the kind of panicked feelings that might prevent someone from picking up a trowel, paintbrush or teacup for fear of doing it wrong."

I'm just now getting around to posting my article that ran on the tea/art/garden venture I mentioned earlier, and here it is! (Free registration required.)