Life is good.

The sky is blue, the air is cool, it’s not even nine o’clock, and I’m back in Boulder. Well, that last is sorta mixed–I’m homesick for New Orleans again, and after a week biking around down there below sea level, I’m out of condition for climbing stairs at a mile high. But if I can’t be there, Boulder is a gorgeous place to be.

And I’m having tea at The Tea Spot.

Life is very good indeed.

They’ve tweaked the decor since my last visit. Just a tweak. Instead of flowers in vases, each booth table sports a bamboo plant in tea cups full of black and white pebbles. There is no good reason why this should make me as happy as it does. If I had to explain it, I’d say that maybe it’s the way the bamboo completes the light gloss of clean, minimized Japanese decor laying contentedly over the international flavor and the Bouldery wi-fi cafe functionality. Sometimes a body just wants a lack of audiovisaul clutter.

This is one of my favorite places in the whole world, and y’all should come on up and try it out while the weather’s still nice.

(‘Cause I hear it ain’t gonna stay that way and I’ll be hatin’ life tomorrow.)