• Sunday, December 07th, 2008
The Kawa Bonsai Club’s, Joy of Bonsai will be held in January and they are lining up a competition for those that participated in the Tokonoma building class last year. All of those that took the class can bring back their Tokonoma with a display set up to compete against each other. Sounds like fun.
Here’s the group from last year in a Photoshop project I did. If you haven’t seen these little displays, you really need to. They are really something special.
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• Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Wow! This tree has been so wonderful to work with, and so rewarding. The past two weeks this tree has put out another batch of flowers while the rest of my collection begins to prepare for dormancy in a few months. I think it is just showing off. In any case I knew I had to get some pictures now to submit for consideration for next year’s Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. In my opionion this tree is ready and will look great on display.
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• Saturday, January 19th, 2008
I participated in a Sean Smith workshop during the Joy of Bonsai for building a miniature Tokonoma. It was a lot of fun and a great price.
This was the first steps of constructing the Tokonoma. Sevrel types of woods were used, however I really can’t remember them at this time.
I love this picture! At first it looks like a computer course with people sitting around laptops, but they are only these wooden things. I like to think of it as an Amish Computer Training Class.
More supplies are shown here. It was put together with only glue. Really a great kit that Sean provided.
The side panel had a window that was later fitted with a bamboo treatment.
Here is the finished room with a tree from Louise Leister. Hard to tell the scale of it because it really looks like a full sized room.
I had a little bit of fun with Photoshop after the class by inserting pictures of all of the people that took the class. This photo actually became a bit famous and is used in newsletters and advertisments for all sorts of things.
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• Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Just 4 years ago to almost the day I bought this tree as a pre-bonsai, now here it stands on display at Disney’s Epcot for approx 1.7 million (estimated of course) people to see during the Flower and Garden Festival. It really turned out great, and it is in location that I had hoped it would be. In the following picture shows it proudly displayed in front of the Japanese restaurant. The background colors complement the tree and make for some outstanding pictures. This tree is on display until June 3, 2007, if you get the chance check it out. April 2007
By the way, notice the change in pot. The previous pot was loaned to me and I had to switch it out before the show. However I think this one looks a lot better for this tree.
If you look closely in the center of the picture you can see this tree displayed.
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