This weekend we travelled inland to Marcia and Chris's house at Yea, just over 100 kms north of Melbourne. The journey took us through the Yarra Valley, one of the wine growing regions of Victoria. It is a really lovely pastoral area with rolling hills, mixed farming, vineyards and patches of forrest. The area has an annual rainfall over 40% higher than Torquay, making it a very different countryside compared to the coastal area where we live.
The hills were still rather misty at lunch time on Saturday creating a landscape that faded into the distance.
On our walk around the garden, the eucalyptus trees in the neighbouring property had lost their colour and texture because of the mist.
In this photo the garden seems to end in the wall of grey beyond the boundary trees.
My attention at one moment was caught by the watery sunlight catching the dew drops on this spiders web. Marcia pointed out earlier that some of the leaves were actually rimed with ice and then told me that the temperature had got down to minus two degrees celsius overnight.
Some bright red pomegranates by the verandah were very appealing to my ikebana eyes, along with the branches that had quite thick growths of various lichens. I was granted permission to prune and create a large autumnal ikebana installation.
My idea was to set it sufficiently high that the evening guests when seated around the coffee table would be able to see each other below the reaching branches.
When we arrived we were welcomed by this ikebana made by Marcia to which I later added the pomegranate at the back.
This is how my large ikebana looked photographed against a wall. The materials are lichen-encrusted branches, two branches of pomegranates and two white camellias that are among the mass in the centre of the arrangement.
Greetings from Christopher
23rd May 2021
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