Now that Sakura Season has passed, I'm dreaming of next year's show! Each year it seems even more beautiful. I can't help but to wonder what my children's children will say when they see these beautiful trees. Long Live the Cherry Blossom!

Ikebana Lesson

Azaleas, Heaven

Azaleas, Earth

White azaleas, Man

Laughter in between

 

Red dogwood with tiny buds

Clipped to make dynamic lines

Like drawing with an eraser

 

Then a lily in a kanzen

So dignified

It makes us gasp.

 

Metal grass

Manhattan trash

Entrapping tender peonies

This is free form

Ikebana

 

Ladies with their husband’s names

Are breaking all the rules

Flowers are their weapons

Space their golden key

Looking Forward - Looking Back Azalea Time Has Come

Cherry Blossoms almost gone
They fell like snow in Buffalo
Now azaleas take the stage
Hot pink across stone steps
And every green your can see
On graceful maple leaves

Saturday May 11th, 2013 Rain or Shine!  Cherry Blossom viewing day picnics.  We will host a sunrise time meditation sitting and walking at 7:00AM.  Then the garden will be showing us it's last spring blossoms all day.  If you want, bring a picnic or instruments or cameras or children or just come!  We will offering free docent tours at 1:00 and at 2:00.  This is a miraculous time of year.  Celebrate rain or shine.