Tea notes: February

Sardine bowls, a chic python belt, and the book that'll get you out of your reading rut

Spring has soft launched in Colorado. It’s been an atypically radiant week of 60-degree days. The fleshy tips of tulip leaves are poking out of the dirt all around the neighborhood, as if daring to unfurl early. My mail carrier has already switched to the shorts version of his uniform, for goodness’ sake.

Flip flops in February feel wildly disorienting,…