My Pride and Joy

Wow, this is the first time I'm posting a blog about something that happened less than a week ago. I went to my first ikebana class last night. Even though I am really proud of the finished product, I have to confess that I'm not sure how much I contributed to it. It reminded me of an education term "scaffolding." In the beginning, the teacher does most of the work. Anyway, there were rules to the design. For example, the subject (the tall leaf) is placed in the middle and is twice the length of the container plus the height of the container.

I am not a person of forethought....I biked to the class. So, by the time I got home the arrangement was a mess and I had to use the picture I took on my camera phone to reconstruct it.