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The paws that refreshes![/caption]
The Kermode bear is best known as a "spirit bear" for it's white or cream-coloured coat. This rare subspecies of the North American Black Bear is found in the central and north coast of British Columbia -- if you can find it at all. You shouldn't expect to see it very often in Fairview coffee houses.
As I was waiting yesterday for my dark mocha -- I already had my slice of ginger bread loaf -- I looked expectantly in the direction of the espresso machine. There was a bit of a crowd. Eun-Hye was really focused on making my coffee. The other barista on shift was standing by quietly watching her, and there was Kiran along with the former store owner!
Kiran is a past-master of latte art. She's semi-retired from the barista game but still occasionally works at the Waves at Broadway and Spruce; I think I arrived at the end of one of her shifts.
I waited as Eun-Hye finished up with the thermometer stick, using it to tweak and tease the steamed milk foam -- covering the mocha coffee here, revealing it there -- controlling the Brownian motion in just the right way. The cat-tastic dark mocha she made me the day before, was, she later explained, her first latte art.
She used both hands to gently place the finished coffee for customer pickup. She had a big smile; so did Kiran who proved that humility holds the door for pride as she declared with that pixie in her voice and the gleam in her eye:
"She learned from the best."
Yikes. Both of them. Working together. The cuteness was almost too much to bear! Click the image to enlarge.
The paws that refreshes![/caption]The Kermode bear is best known as a "spirit bear" for it's white or cream-coloured coat. This rare subspecies of the North American Black Bear is found in the central and north coast of British Columbia -- if you can find it at all. You shouldn't expect to see it very often in Fairview coffee houses.
As I was waiting yesterday for my dark mocha -- I already had my slice of ginger bread loaf -- I looked expectantly in the direction of the espresso machine. There was a bit of a crowd. Eun-Hye was really focused on making my coffee. The other barista on shift was standing by quietly watching her, and there was Kiran along with the former store owner!
Kiran is a past-master of latte art. She's semi-retired from the barista game but still occasionally works at the Waves at Broadway and Spruce; I think I arrived at the end of one of her shifts.
I waited as Eun-Hye finished up with the thermometer stick, using it to tweak and tease the steamed milk foam -- covering the mocha coffee here, revealing it there -- controlling the Brownian motion in just the right way. The cat-tastic dark mocha she made me the day before, was, she later explained, her first latte art.
She used both hands to gently place the finished coffee for customer pickup. She had a big smile; so did Kiran who proved that humility holds the door for pride as she declared with that pixie in her voice and the gleam in her eye:
"She learned from the best."
Yikes. Both of them. Working together. The cuteness was almost too much to bear! Click the image to enlarge.
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Now sqwabb, are you looking at the art in the cups, or the girls that deliver the cups that are too cute to bear?
I'm not falling for that. I had a wonderful boss once. One day I made the mistake of telling her how nice her hair looked "today." She wheeled on me and "sweetly" demanded to know "what was wrong with it yesterday?"
Any answer I give is likely to get me in trouble. I probably already am -- in trouble that is.
Chicken!