Tea and Lemon Bars

With all the April showers we've been having, 

I've been staying inside doing a little cooking. 

I recently found a delicious recipe for
 Double Lemon Cheesecake Bars.

I am happy to say that these little morsels of goodness will put a smile on your face! 

They have a vanilla wafer cookie crust,

 a lemon cheesecake filling, 

and a wonderful lemon glaze on top.

I added some frozen raspberries
and lemon zest to make them pretty. 

Here, have a bite! 

 Now isn't that delicious? 

Let me pour you a cup of tea....

I just picked the last of my daffodils.

The tea pot was a Mother's Day gift
from my daughters two years ago. 

They took me to the most beautiful restaurant for a
 Mother's Day Tea

In the Gift Shop
I was told to choose a sweet gift.

I chose this tea pot, (which you can see on the shelf  in the 6th photo of the link).

It is a nearly perfect color match to my vintage Franciscan ware.

I am always looking for pieces to add to my collection,
new and vintage.

We are having Green Tea, today.

The Quimper Ware honey pot and tiny flower basket toothpick holder
were gifts from my Dear Mother.

These small gifts represented the start of our 'new life' given
at a time when we were 'roughing it' on raw land,
building our homes.

We had given up most of our household furnishings
 and possessions to live in a 32 foot trailer while building.

A small gift of hope.
So very dear.

We are expecting a couple more days of rainy weather,

but the middle of next week is promising to be warm and sunny.

As the sun was setting last night,
we saw this universal sign of hope.

A double!

A beautiful end to a rainy day!

Wishing you rainbows, tea and lemon bars on your rainy days, too!

xoxo

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
- C.S. Lewis -

"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

"So the small things came into their own:
small acts of helping others, if one could;
small ways of making one's own life better:
acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter.
Clever people might laugh at such simplicity,
but, she asked herself,
what was their own solution?"
-Alexander McCall Smith-
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive