the beauty of small things

I recently brewed a Chinese tea flower I had got as a free "takeaway" at an upmarket restaurant. Actually, it was an unassuming grey walnut-sized shrivelled something that morphed into the beautiful flower(s) pictured above. Celebrating a cross-culture (Bodum tea strainer meets Chinese tea gadget) tea ceremony for one, I marvelled at the metamorphosis taking place in my tea pot. Yet another reminder to not judge a book by its cover.