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Andy Rutledge is a fellow Texan from the Dallas area. He is an active member of those area clubs and on all the internet bonsai "scenes". I've known him a few years now.

A few years ago he started "The Bonsai Enthusiast", an online bonsai magazine, safely I think I can say the only succesful one... He confronts some interesting issues in his editorials.

He's got some good looking trees and has a special liking for Japanese Black Pine.

I think this one is particularly interesting because like Andy, I too believe that standards are important. This flies in the face of the belief that simple effort will yield good "art". It seems inarguable, yet I've found myself amidst such...

This can be written off as my opinion, however, common sense tells you that a thorough knowledge of any process, as well as practice, will yield a better product. Artistic principles, when used in the interpretation of natural imagery into bonsai forms, can't help but result in a more aesthetically pleasing image...

Jim Stone
TX