Google Homepage Themes: A busy day at the Tea House
Google launched new home page themes for iGoogle that change their activities, surroundings and even weather throughout the day all based on your zip code. We chose Tea House because the little guy is cute and the graphics are stunning.
Here is a photographic time-line of Google’s Tea House homepage theme.
Fishing at Sunrise-little rooster greets the day.
Working in the orchard -cheetah watches from the tea house Fuzzy caterpillar has a morning snack.
Thanks to reader Maggie for debunking the cheetah in grass myth. 
Picnic lunch by the lake- frog prince feasts on flying fare
UPDATE: thank you to Layercake reader: popculturefan. We love this one!
Afternoon row around the river- chick hitches a ride
UPDATE: Thank you! You guys are on it. We received several copies of this shot. You guys are paying attention.
Laundry in the river- sandals waiting on shore
The evening meal-turtle eats his leafy greens
Feeding the geese at dusk-mama watches from the shore
Evening serenade-cricket listens from high atop the orange tree
Evening chill out- glowy cricket firefly watches
UPDATE: Reader Froth Boy just sent us the very lovely Stargazing at 2 am. Thank you! (June 8th, 2007)
UPDATE: Reader Froth Boy submits another foxy find. It appears that Fox leaves the gift for his Pi visitors just before tucking himself in for the night. So the time stamp should be somewhere between 2am and 3:24am. Thank you!
UPDATE: Reader Brandon submits this easter egg scene that occurs at pi, 3:14 am. Love it! Thanks, Brandon. source
Sleeping peacefully- visitors receive gifts
UPDATE: Froth Boy comes through again with another great image. We don’t have a time stamp but the empty plate is a clear indicator that it is after the visitors have taken the oranges. Any guess as to what the creature is? (June 23, 2007)
REM- Oranges gifted
Here are the themes you can choose from. When you make your selection you can enter your zip code so your little desktop world will match your own.
Google’s new customizable homepage is hands down the best one out there. There are so many options for news and other content all with a couldn’t be simpler ajax drag and drop interface. Love it!
Cruise eBay and YouTube from your desktop. Catch up on the Onion. Monitor real time earthquake data from around the globe. Play Mahjong while calculating driving directions and never fall behind in Homestar Runner happenings. In other words: Never do actual work at your desk again.
If you come across any Tea House scenes that we missed please send the image to editor at layercake dot net and we will gladly add it to the gallery, and credit you of course.
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