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Thanks for sharing guys,...Dale could you not modify the lil guy you already have, or is it antique or expensive? Randy,..it really is nice to see some figures other than the asian influenced ones,...but I see no absolute need to be non-asian in the pursuit of our origanlly asian artform,...it's not so much that we feel a need to be "exotic" but many people in bonsai have many interests in the orient in addition to bonsai, even asian artists have used things such as horses. Besides like some one here has said before, is "bonsai" not still a Japanese word? I really don't want to get into a big discussion about why bonsai is not asian, as I know that trees in pots are grown all over the world now, but in most of those places they still call it bonsai. I really do like the idea of having a tire swing in an old looking broom style,...or a treehouse in an informal upright. Anyhow thanks ya'll.

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29-Dec-2005	#9
zen GREEN HORN Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: Commerce GA (Near Athens) Country: U.S. USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: 7 Posts: 1,742	Thanks for sharing guys,...Dale could you not modify the lil guy you already have, or is it antique or expensive? Randy,..it really is nice to see some figures other than the asian influenced ones,...but I see no absolute need to be non-asian in the pursuit of our origanlly asian artform,...it's not so much that we feel a need to be "exotic" but many people in bonsai have many interests in the orient in addition to bonsai, even asian artists have used things such as horses. Besides like some one here has said before, is "bonsai" not still a Japanese word? I really don't want to get into a big discussion about why bonsai is not asian, as I know that trees in pots are grown all over the world now, but in most of those places they still call it bonsai. I really do like the idea of having a tire swing in an old looking broom style,...or a treehouse in an informal upright. Anyhow thanks ya'll. __________________ "Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work." ~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)