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Tea’d Out in Santa Fe

Reporting from the chaise longue, where I am recovering from a delightful if exhausting weekend in Santa Fe. The Investigation was a success! Details to come in the Wisteria Tearoom Group on Facebook*. A small but intrepid group of investigators combed the streets of Santa Fe for clues while collecting…

Wisteria Tearoom Investigation Countdown!

It’s two weeks until the event! Our hotel room block has been released, but you may still register for the event itself, which includes the orientation Friday evening, Saturday walking tour and driving tour, and Sunday debriefing. You may also sign up for the Cream Tea on Saturday. FINAL DEADLINE…

September teacup

September is here and Autumn is more obvious every day. The oaks are covered in ripe acorns and their leaves are beginning to turn. Here is the September teacup, the winner in a fairly close poll. Enjoy your harvest, whatever it may be! Poll results here. If you’d like…

August teacup

Welcome to August! Here is this month’s teacup, filled with Golden Needle, a lovely Yunnan tea. Enjoy the transition from summer to autumn. Poll results here. If you’d like to vote for my teacup next month, make sure you’re signed up for the Teacup of the Month Poll under…

Event! Wisteria Tearoom Investigation…

Have you heard? We’re going to investigate the “Wisteria Tearoom” this September. Specifically, we’ll view the real 19th century building on which the fictional tearoom is based – and that’s just the start! Friday-Sunday, September 29-October 1, 2023 INVESTIGATORS WANTED! All the details, including how to register, are here. …

For your reading pleasure…

Book review: AMERICAN GHOST by Hannah Nordhaus Ghost stories are an American obsession. We gobble them like smores around a campfire, with the wind whistling through the tree branches in the darkness behind us and unidentifiable noises keeping our nerves tingling. Hannah Nordhaus’s American Ghost is not quite that kind…

Something Old, Something New

Possibly you know this, but in case not, there are two short stories set in the Wisteria Tearoom world. They are now listed here on the website. At present they are only available as ebooks (with the exception of the print edition of Conjuring Crime, the anthology in which “The…

July teacup

This time the winner was clear. While the strawberries received much admiration, Golden Bramble is the choice for my July teacup. Here it is, with some real strawberries (because yum!) and some Our Lady of Guadalupe roses from the garden. Happy July! Enjoy the bounty of summer! Poll results here.…

June Teacup

Summer’s in full swing now. As the days get longer we in New Mexico are blessed this year with more rain than usual. It means not so hot. It means less worry about forest fires. It means the garden is flourishing. Bliss! The teacup poll was as close as it…

May Teacup

What a difference a month makes! Flowers in bloom everywhere, trees leafed out, and days warming up. I’m really enjoying this time of exceptional garden beauty and lovely weather. I have planted some pansies, as I do every year, and their cheery faces outside my window always make me smile.…