Al, the Kimura post was pretty good actually. Don't we wish all of them could be so honest. There were a couple of misunderstandings along the way but that is to be expected any time you get a group of unlike minds together. But what would bonsai be if we all thought alike?
Darn it, your right. Usually if a tree looks like crap I don't tell the person. And you might say that this is giving them false hope. I just have not learned to do it tactfully, so I leave it to you.
Many times I can look at a tree and see [in my minds eye] what I would do to improove it but I have a difficult time expressing it in written text. I've got to learn how to do those virtuals!
Tony