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25-Jul-2003
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Memory Lane (the Hard Way)
As you all know, (bored by now) I;m remodeling the house I bought. While packing things up and moving them from room to room to do painting and stuff, I found this photo album. I began looking thru it and said to myself, Wow, I really did that back then and thought it was good. Well I did. It got me to thinking I need to post this stuff so you can see that I too am human. I have a few skelatons in my closet.
I started bonsai on my Honeymoon in Jan. of 1984. I came home with a first plant and a new book. The plant went on to die, I read the book till the pages fell out of the binding, and the kids from the two merged families began to take over the house. I needed someplace to take refuge. Bonsai is where I turned. I worked in the backyard on trees every chance I could. I will grace thepages of bonsaiTALK with a few, no.. make that alot of photos to share and laugh about. I have a thick skin and nothing you can say about these efforts will bother me. Chastise away my fellow enthusiasts, and I hope to see some old photo's here from some of you old timers. These are scans of old photo's and they are not very good. I start out with a pic of my children with the second buy of stock I ever made. The small elm in the foreground will be pictured later looking pretty good. My son was 8 and my daughter was 5. Add 19 to that and they are grown up and out of the house with families of their own now. This is 1984
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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In 1986 I found out about a place called Muranaka Bonsai Nursery. A great place, and my dreams had come true. This is pic of me and Kanemi Muranaka looking quite healthy 17 years ago. I think he is about a hundred by now.
(notice the dark hair and the slimmer build on the good looking chap)
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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Thats me lounging on the balcony of the motel in Morro Bay after my buy at Muranaka's. I bought an elm and a quince. If anyone is interested in a better shot of the quince I have one.
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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In1986 my new wife and I bought our first home together. I built this gazebo to house my collection in.
Check out the cool dead plant in the coffee can! Too cheap to buy a training pot.
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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I can tell you this, I have come along way when picking out plants with good roots. What was I thinking when I bought this thing?
An elm in 1987
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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By 1987 I was reading some things in Naka's book about tunuki. I figured that it can't be that hard. I should give this a try and see if I can make something really good.
I had no access to dead wood, but was cutting firewood every year. I cut off these dead root bases from old trees turned over in the winds. Check out the bulk of the deadwood in the first one, and who ever heard of an elm tunuki? Man what we do when we know no better.
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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By 1988 I decided that I would try my hand at bunjin. This literati thing doesn't look so hard? Well it is harder than I thought!
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25-Jul-2003
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Greybeard
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I did have a few succeses. The elm you saw in the first pic, the one all bent over, well this is what it became in four years.
( Check out that stand. One of my first. How would you like to win something like that?)
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25-Jul-2003
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In 1988 I also built my first bonsai bench. I was little better at carpentry then bonsai back then!
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25-Jul-2003
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1989, what the hell was I thinking here? Why did I even take a picture of it? Did I think that someday I might need a before shot for Bonsai Today magazine?
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