Sunnyside

Fine china and milk-laced tea, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies and cocoa-dusted meringues-for two little girls dressed in their Sunday best-this was the epitome of elegance. Our weekly afternoon tea with Grammie was a ritual never missed. Sunnyside-her tidewater Virginian farmhouse-is a quietly elegant home with a warm, welcoming porch that invites tea parties and other lasting traditions.