It was a beautiful, summer morning for this year’s 4th of July. Some tea and cookies on the deck were in order.

I cut some rose blooms off one of my shrub roses. Enough to just make a wee bouquet. It’s a shame all of the flowers on one stem don’t bloom all at once.

We already had some peanut butter and chocolate cookies so I gatherd up a lantern, a pretty pattern table, cloth and my old Tetley tea tin as a base.