Originally Posted by bonsaial1

Yea you may be right. You would be grumpy too if you had been the first one to sign on here and help build a discussion forum to one of the best on the net. Then watch it sink into nearly obscurity due to many factors, most importantly a lack of respect for those who contribute.

The last two years for me have been basicly internet poor. I just lurk and read and click past a daily barrage of; "gee, my elm is dyeing, what should I do" and click on. I have photo's ready for about 10 very good step by steps. Some new layers, Root management for moving a tree to the next level, Building a shohin broom style, Detail carving a California juniper, Twisted Yamadori style Shimpaku junipers, (5 of them) Moving shohin to grow containers for ramification, Third step in a 6 year old trident project (The final chop) First carving of a trident twin trunk from chops started in 2003, First styling of a bunjin Common procumbens (not nana) First styling of a nana slant style with lots of dead wood(three inch trunk).

I'm working on those projects as we speak as well as building half a dozen bonsai tables from a load of wood givin to me by Joe James, the wheels for Harry Hirao.

Back in the old days people would tell you how grateful they were that someone was providing this to the net. Now days wanna be's just want to argue about this and that and I have just grown weary of the hassle. I have left a good archive of work here for some to enjoy and sometimes even I come back and read those posts again and actually get a thrill all over again.I know that I have written enough here to fill a book, and it's all my work and most of the trees are still around to see the further development on.
I don't kill many trees now a days.

I am more content now to write my Editorials and watch and read what happens as the days move on. There seems to be much more furver over a good peice of writing that gets people talking rather than a good essay on how to make a tree. Look at my first editorial about Bonsai Today which was many pages long like 35 or something against most of the step by step tree threads, a few posts at best.

I would ask that some write one sometime. Gather the pictures and write the narrative about what it takes to write step by step instructions of ones work. It is not easy and if easy it is really time consuming.

BTW, this post is timely.

BE WARNED! Al