MWGC - monthly Meeting and Little Show

The title of the little show is "Scavenger Hunt."
"As Assemblage Tape 3 with plant and found objects fastened to a panel to create an abstract design". My design materials are a piece of plastic fence, root stick, dried water lily seed pod, Hydrangea, Allium and Maple leaves. This month we had more members show their designs for competition. I got 3rd place, because I did not know that I should have used more than one found object. I used only one (fence). I like my design, I think it is pretty and has meaning in it.

3rd place by me

1st place by Patricia

2nd place by Barbara

Fall Arrangement

 Material: Sun flower, Hosta, static and bittersweet

Container: Ceramic vase

Fall Theme - Using a Variety of Materials

Farewell to the Summer, here comes the Autumn's colorful scenery. The green, red, yellow, orange and falling leaves are just beautiful!
Walking in the park with my husband, I found a big fallen tree branch with dried lichen on it. Immediately I sensed that this was the perfect piece of Ikebana material for the assignment of Fall scenic arrangement.

Material: Bitter sweet, Zinnia, Mum, Hydrangea, Coral bell
leaves and pumpkin. This is my final arrangement.

Showing a piece of bare wood branch with some bitter sweet on it

September to early October Orchid Blooms

As soon as I stepped into my house from a two week long vacation, I ran to check on my orchids.  I discovered a few orchids were in bloom, which was just what I expected to welcome me home. So delightful!
These orchids pictures were taken from 9/21 to 9/30/2014. They will last at least for another two weeks.

Cattleya Alliance. Fragrant in the morning

C. Benice Foster. Richare Mueller x B.Cardata. Fragrant in the night

C. Mysteve  Natsumi

L. Purpurata var. carnea x Bl. Richard Mueller

Blc. Final Touch "Mendenhall" AM/AOS.  Another bud in the back

After a month, bloom again

Dendrobium

Road Side Scenery - 6

We were so blessed with very nice weather throughout the whole trip. It was sunny and hot, but not humid.
Everywhere we went we saw many aggressive constructions and improvements. I think Turkey is going to have a bright future and will be a great country.
These are the few pictures, with all different dates during the trip, that I would like to share with you to conclude my presentation.

The bridge connects Europe and Asia (Galata Bridge)

The beautiful mosque on the bank of the Bosphorus

Distant view of Blue Mosque ( Istanbul)

Aegean Sea viewed from Porto Bella hotel Room (Antalya city)

Evil's eye decorated tree (for protection or get rid of bad spirit)

Nature Ikebana on park entrance

village pottery shop

Road side landscape in Ankara

Along the high way we saw many mountains like this with sparing
 of tall trees. Hot and dry in Summer and snow cover in Winter. 

park decoration in front of the museum

Turtle found on the side of ancient ruin. I think it might be
thousand years old! just kidding.

Making Turkish Pita at the front of restaurant 

View from hotel balcony. It looks like water color painting.

Rock Formation (Cappadocia) - 5

Cappadocia is located at central Turkey. It is a very interesting place with honeycomb hills and Phallic boulders of otherworldly beauty. It was formed by ancient volcanic soft ash, molded by millennia of rain and river flow. The large caves were utilized as the shelter, in fact, many refugee, Christians and Jews had been hiding there for a long time to avoid the persecution during the period of Christian Intolerance of Roman Empire. There are many ancient churches with fresco and painting on the walls still are well preserved.

Under ground city passage

Stone door for protection

Ankara National Museum - 4

Ankara is the capital of Turkey. There, we saw these amazing, beautiful pieces. These earrings below are from Ancient Troy (6th century B.C) and were smuggled from their excavation to Germany to Russia to eventually University of Pennsylvania, who returned them to Turkey, where they were originally found. There is another pair of these earrings in a museum of Russia. Even today, these are just as fashionable. Below are other gold or luxury objects.

 

Bronze Cauldrons, Assyrian art. 8th century B.C.