Juniper Itoigawa

Neli wrote:Thanks Vance, I adored Oyakata...he is a man I admire...treasure and adore...not to talk about how much I respect...
I hear Kobayashi kicks and punches his apprentices....nothing like that at Taisho en...Every day Oyakata used to buy us ice-cream...Lovely guy. I still call him on the phone to tell him how much I miss him.

That's wonderful. I was coached by a wonderful old man when I was fifteen and just starting bonsai. My memories of him are sweet and powerful, and I treasure them to this day over fifty years latter. He passed while I was in Viet Nam. Never got a chance to say goodby.

Shame, I know what You mean...Oyakata is not young and health wise not sure how well...So I always ask Taiga (his son) if he is OK...last time he told me his back pains him and he did not sound his cheerful self...So I had to ask Taiga if he is OK. Taiga said he was napping when I phoned and that is why he sounded like that.
I told Taiga if he is not OK to let me know...I love Oyakata so much.

Wonderful thread you have going here, just finished reading through and it is the first thread I have read on this site. Not to mention my first ever post here :)I am new to bonsai and have a couple junipers in training so this thread was very informative and helpful to me. Looking forward to what's coming next. I still have much reading to do on all aspects of bonsai but especially primary, secondary, and tertiary branch identification, development and placement. Thanks for the pics and info!

Thank you for your kind words...I have been looking for shimpaku or chinensis branches to continue the article...It is hard to find in Africa...mine are just too small to cut off and I dont want to cut them at this stage...and I need to take pictures when explaining how a pad is made.

I need to reload>host again the pictures. I linked them to Face book and most of them have disappeared. It was so depressing to see that. But I hope to finish this soon. My apologies.

Neli wrote:I need to reload>host again the pictures. I linked them to Face book and most of them have disappeared. It was so depressing to see that. But I hope to finish this soon. My apologies.

I agree, I find FaceBood unreliable.

never trust your only copies to something like fakebook...

All my pictures linked to FB on my blog are gone. Depressing to post there also.
Thank you.

sad to hear but good learning moment. Facebook is not a filehosting service. It is a social network. if they change their internal structures, onfacebook all will work. But external links won't. Better get a service that is set up to host files (Or even better, use the forum-linked service)

bestest of the more betterer is an external 1tb hard drive w/ cloud back-up
(he says as if he knows what he is talking about )

I agree! I will host them here soon as I find a bit of time.

beer city snake wrote:bestest of the more betterer is an external 1tb hard drive w/ cloud back-up
(he says as if he knows what he is talking about  )

That is the very bestest of best ideas. But how do you get those hard drives to float in the clouds?

leatherback wrote:

beer city snake wrote:bestest of the more betterer is an external 1tb hard drive w/ cloud back-up
(he says as if he knows what he is talking about  )

That is the very bestest of best ideas. But how do you get those hard drives to float in the clouds?

virtual balloons !!!

beer city snake wrote:virtual balloons !!!

Be carefull, sounds a lot like a virtual mind talking there. Been smoking?
Tha ain't no such thin as virtu'l bloons!