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06-20-2008, 01:46 PM
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Welcome back, Gustavo!
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06-21-2008, 12:05 AM
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Tom--I like to get fuzzy and watch baseball too. Oh wait...are you the catcher?
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07-21-2008, 06:45 PM
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Well, I already introduced myself on this forum, but without a picture.
Briefly again: I'm 56, have been doing bonsai for about 12-13 years out of the last 18. (The hiatus was to learn other skills, like being a husband and late-in-life dad.) Having grown up in Ecuador, I've got tropical tree images to draw on as well as what we see around us in temperate zones. I have yet to meet a pine I didn't like. I met my wife thru bonsai: I was doing a demo 10 years ago, she stopped to watch, and -- here we are!
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07-21-2008, 07:41 PM
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A bit "Windswept"
 
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I guess bonsai does indeed have some advantages to it. In the process of doing a demo you have gained a support branch!
At 61 I have the support branch but as of yet we are not yet "fused"! No rush........perhaps when I grow up!  Nice story and a beautiful picture. Thank you for sharing.~Phil 
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07-22-2008, 05:53 PM
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Thanks, Phil and Alain.
The picture was taken on the grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden, when we were there for the Midwest Bonsai Show last year. The photographer was our daughter, now almost 8, who looks like my side but gets her beauty from her mom. (And a good thing, too!) If I look older than my wife, I am, by 10-1/2 years. I like your term, "support branch." My wife does support my bonsai involvement, for which I'm thankful. I've heard of couples with constant friction over it, and am glad I don't have that to deal with. She keeps no trees herself, being a self-confessed brown thumb about bonsai, but she sure enjoys them. Our daughter has a few trees, and has been known to surprise the occasional adult who assumes she knows nothing about bonsai! Whether her bonsai involvement will prove to be really hers or just something to do with Daddy remains to be seen, of course, but I'm glad to have her along on that journey as far as she cares to go.
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09-08-2010, 11:05 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Quezon City, Philippines
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Mabuhay from the Philippines!
hello.
its me doing what i like to do most--taking care of my trees ...Im another "Mario" from the Philippines.  ..I love doing bonsai,...i have at least 30 trees on my garden -my favorites are pemphis, nerifolia, and bluebell..most of my trees are tropicals...(for obvious reason of course )attached here also are some of my collections..Cheers Mario |
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