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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,468
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Mojave Bound, Juniper Found
Leap year 2004, extra sunday, rain all week, who could ask for better collecting conditions. Kofu Kai, a club started by Harry Hirao, was to have their annual juniper dig on the last day of the month. I packed all my gear in the truck the night before and was able to slog my body out of bed at 1:00AM sunday morning to drive to Tulare and hitch a ride with my partner for the dig. I met up with Gary Biggs of the Hanford club and we made the trip to Denny's in the small town of Mojave in the California desert.
The resturant was overrun with about 50 bonsai enthusiast's talking about bonsai, shoveling in eggs and toast, and asking questions about the dig site. This group had many individuals that had never been on a dig. (Their world would soon be turned on end!)
At 6:00AM we made the drive north to the dig site in the mountains of Jawbone Canyon. About 25 miles north of Mojave. At the site most of the group parked in one area while others went different directions, and some would move to other locations in search of better trees. This is a view of some of the cars at the site..
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I been kidding the last seven years.
no.... really!
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