Brad Case, PhD, CFA, CAIA

Thank you!

Beautiful!

“The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder, 1929. Prose perfection. I return to it again and again.

Beautiful!

Walkabout!

This is the arrangement I made at this afternoon’s Ikebana International workshop. The idea was to use glass, whether as the container or in the arrangement. The glass here is actually a lantern, and a small container inside holds the cedar branches and red and white flowers.

This the arrangement I made for our ikebana workshop this afternoon. The idea was to use glass, either as the container or in the arrangement. The glass here is actually a lantern, and the glass has bubbles in it.

Ikebana flower arrangement with three parts in a long, narrow low vase. The main materials are cedar branches, along with light-purple ranunculus blossoms, small white star-shaped phlox, and a larger greenish-purple Star-shaped flower whose name I can’t remember.

I made this one-row arrangement in Ikebana class this morning. I added a little to the difficulty by choosing a very narrow container. What do you think?

Ikebana flower arrangement of three large yellow chrysanthemum blooms plus five pussy willow branches, in a low blue round container.

My first Moribana Kansui-kei (Water-Reflecting Style), and also my first time working with shippo. I’m very happy with how it turned out. #Ikebana #Ohara

What a wonderful piece. What an amazing artist.

Ikebana arrangement in a low blue container incorporating a LEGO set of an oceangoing canoe from the Disney movie Moana. The plant materials are little leaves to suggest the wave cresting over the canoe and small white daisies to suggest foam. A separate piece of carved wood suggests an island behind the canoe.

My daughter loves Disney movies and gave me this lego set, so I made this arrangement showing Moana escaping from a huge wave to mark Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3), the day celebrating children in Japan.

Nicely done!

Nicely done!

Excellent. I didn’t know such a thing as “floristry beads” existed! Thanks.

Altar arrangement incorporating several large winter squash, pepper bushes, ornamental kale, magenta Gerbera daisies, and a pomegranate.

The altar arrangement I created for tomorrow’s worship service.

Beautiful as usual!

Do you have a layer of marbles so the water is there but the leaves aren’t in too much contact with it?

My Moribana Chokuritsu-kei upright style) from today’s #ikebana class with my #Ohara-ryu sensei Yuko Wain.

You are such a blessing!

I just finished Crossing the River, by Caryl Phillips. What a novel. About the African diaspora. In the hands of a very, very assured writer. Oh my.

Wonderful!

Welcome to Bluesky!

Lovely again!

Ikebana of white and yellow daisies plus a single rose in a shallow dark grey container, placed on a wooden pig board in a fireplace with a black background, with a ceramic tea bowl and a cloth showing carp placed nearby.

I decided the fireplace is boring when there’s no fire.

Check out Ikebana International. If there’s a chapter in your city, they’ll have a website with info on teachers from the different schools.

So beautiful!

Ikebana with sunflowers, nandina leaf fronds, dried Chinese lantern pods, and a light-orange-and-white patterned cloth in a one-row container.

I just created this #ikebana arrangement using the #tenugui that my son gifted me yesterday.

Altar arrangement incorporating deep red gerbera daisies, red dahlias, orange ranunculus, and a large bright yellow bowl tipped up to look almost like a sun. Also greens and several candles.

Today’s altar arrangement for Westmoreland Congregational #UCC in Bethesda Maryland.

I remember sky. It was blue as ink. Or at least I think I remember sky.

I love you two!