JD_Wolfe

bonsaial1:

Regarding some of your earlier sentiments on Kyosuki Gun's books. I'm pretty sure some of the illustrations you posted are featured in the Master's Series Juniper guide (there are illustrations by Gun at any rate). And I mostly just "look at the pictures."

For instance, I love Peter Adam's maples but I find his books and the descriptions of his methods a real chore to understand. When reading his books I'm always asking: "Peter, could you please just give us a few more pictures? please?" The process of reading Adam's books is predictably the same: after some considerable effort forming a concept-collage of words and abstractions I try to marry it to the one pic of the finished tree. The resultant mental picture is murky at best. Self-consciousness about my command of the English language sets in and I put the book down and read something easier like, well... anything.

I like pictures when dealing with visual/tactile operations.