Kadomatsu Workshop

I've been remiss in mentioning the kadomatsu workshop last Friday at the Botanic Garden.  With the Atrium full of decorations (see below), they held it in the Education Building.  There was some confusion about the location with some people walking out to the Cider Barn before coming back to the correct location.  In the end there were about 40 participants.  

 In fact, so many visitors turned up that they ran out of bamboo, plum branches, and berries.  I took mine home unfinished and added sand cherry branches from the backyard to complete the trilogy of evergreen sprig-deciduous branch-cluster of red fruit.

I will remind everyone to get down to River of Lights while the weather is warm*.  Don't forget to check out the minimalist lighting in the Lebanese Garden and the beautiful decorations inside the Atrium.  They're both easy to miss.  Also, after looping around the Heritage Farm, be sure to go out to the pond in the Japanese Garden and then take the back path (turn west at the railroad tracks) around to the main pond.

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* Warm does not equal "good."  We've got no snowpack and no precipitation in the forecast.  Forget that White Christmas thingie.  Pray that we don't have a terrible wildfire season.