Tea Time

My mom has made it a tradition to visit the Dallas Arboretum every December and have their "holiday tea". It's always a good time. There's three courses: a soup, an assortment of tea sandwiches, and then an assortment of scones and cookies. Each course has its own flavor of tea. This year my mother, middle sister, Perry, and I went. My sister doesn't even really like tea, but she likes the food.

my sister staying classy

Normally when we go to our tea in December, it's cold and drizzly and cloudy so we almost have the whole arboretum to ourselves. This time it was 83 degrees and sunny, so there were actually other people out and about. It felt odd with it being so warm. A lot of the flowers and roses were still blooming.

Another factor that might have contributed to the crowds was that the arboretum was hosting a Chihuly art exhibit. All of the installations were beautiful. They ranged from enormous to subtle.

The arboretum is already full of photo ops, but the art exhibit provided even more. There were even some professional photographers out with light reflectors and everything.

See that little girl behind the hulking guy in the black shirt? Well, apparently this wasn't her first photo session. She was voguing up a storm for the camera.

This girl was doing a photo shoot in an awesome rainbow dress. My mom thought that they might be taking pictures for her quinceanera. Teenagers keep looking younger to me every year.

Look! It's that sassy diva again. Work it, girl!

When I become suddenly and inexplicably wealthy, I will travel the world and take pictures of people taking pictures of people in front of famous places and things: The Tower of Pisa, The Eiffel Tower, The Golden Gate Bridge.