Tea-Time

Having long wanted to live near her roots, she bought the land for Tea-Time Farm for $250,000 in 1988 and says she slept in a crude shed on the property for a year to experience the light changes before building everything for about $1.5 million in all.

An Author's Hunting Grounds 2010

Having long wanted to live near her roots, she bought the land for Tea-Time Farm for $250,000 in 1988 and she says slept in a crude shed on the property for a year to experience the light changes before building everything for about $1.5 million in all, most from salvaged materials.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

After a visit to the local taxidermist, the foxes, along with the odd bobcat and raccoon, come to Tea-Time Farm, Ms. Brown's 580-acre property here outside Charlottesville where they adorn tables beneath an extensive collection of oil paintings of horses, dogs and fox-hunting scenes and deer antlers.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

Having long wanted to live near her roots, she bought the land for Tea-Time Farm for $250,000 in 1988 and she says slept in a crude shed on the property for a year to experience the light changes before building everything for about $1.5 million in all, most from salvaged materials.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

Stephen Voss for The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, who released a new book called "Cat of the Century" earlier this week, lives on a 580-acre property called Tea-Time Farm outside Charlottesville, Va.

An Author's Hunting Grounds 2010

"It should be called Coke-Time Farm, not Tea-Time Farm," adds manager Karen Osborne, who looks after the horses and hounds with Ms. Brown.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

After a visit to the local taxidermist, the foxes, along with the odd bobcat and raccoon, come to Tea-Time Farm, Ms. Brown's 580-acre property here outside Charlottesville where they adorn tables beneath an extensive collection of oil paintings of horses, dogs and fox-hunting scenes and deer antlers.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

Stephen Voss for The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, who released a new book called "Cat of the Century" earlier this week, lives on a 580-acre property called Tea-Time Farm outside Charlottesville, Va.

An Author's Hunting Grounds 2010

"It should be called Coke-Time Farm, not Tea-Time Farm," adds manager Karen Osborne, who looks after the horses and hounds with Ms. Brown.

Writing With the Hounds Nancy Keates 2010

Having long wanted to live near her roots, she bought the land for Tea-Time Farm for $250,000 in 1988 and says she slept in a crude shed on the property for a year to experience the light changes before building everything for about $1.5 million in all.

An Author's Hunting Grounds 2010