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Website title: ROADSIDE IKEBANA

Publisher:  chrisjjames
Message frequency:  1 / week

Message History

Today I pay tribute to my ikebana friend and colleague Kath Dacy who died last Wednesday at the age of 98. Kath was a student of the late Norman Sparnon, as were many of Australia's early ikebana community. She also was a student of the late, highly regarded, Victorian teacher Ursula Breit. 

Kath was a qualified high school art teacher before she was introdu...

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As an Ikebana practitioner I have a particular appreciation of the conditions in winter where I live. The climate of the southern coastline of mainland Australia is 'Mediterranean'. That means hot dry summers and cold wet winters. It means there is still plenty of green to be seen during winter. This is particularly because Australia is blessed with na...
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 In this part of the world, it is most distinctly winter in spite of the bright sunshine seen in the photograph below

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HOME AGAINJun 22, 2025

We are now home again from our holiday and settling back into Torquay. The weather has been quite cold with maximums in the low teens and down to 3 degrees centigrade overnight recently.
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FAREWELL TO OTTAWAJun 16, 2025

Our hosts in Ottawa are my ikebana friend, Leonora, and her husband Richard. 
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