Beyond Beyond Well Being

I took an Ikebana (aka Kado) workshop at the local Shambhala Meditation Center. This organization is part of the long shadow cast by Tibetan monk Chogram Trungpa Rimpoche. His books (actually transcripts of lectures) are very good and I give most of them three thumbs up.

My left slant style ikebana:

Here's a close-up of the small stuff internally:

I trimmed up a little indoor tree recently. Had so much fun doing it that I decided to study Ikebana, Japanese flower arranging.

The plants in this Ikebana all come from my garden including the poinsettias (that were otherwise thrashed by the wind storm on Christmas Eve) and the fireworks shaped leaves that come from a plant with no name.

This Ikebana went on a Christmas dinner table, though without the blue plastic cup that was used only to lift it up into the light for this picture.

Not much, but a good start.