When what to my wondering eyes should appear . . .

. . . under the tree but a beautiful stand for my small trees . . .

(The tree is a bougainvillea 'pink pixie' that I already had inside. That's a child's ivory inro and netsuke on the bottom side.)

And then, when I turned from the tree to the window, here is what we see:

Love the stand. Hope everybody has a safe a merry christmas.

Neil

Half an hour later . . .

Very nice stand you recieved!!!! it is snowing here too...covering up the ICE that will be fun..take care john

The stand is made by David Knittle of (Erie??) Pa. Does anyone have any background info? Jackie got it at Bill's get-together in NY this Sept.

Tansu Unique Horticulture
1423 Selinger Ave
Erie, Pennsylvan 16505-4519
Telephone: 814-835-3806
Web Site apparently has been discontinued.
Contact: David Knittle

I don't think he makes as many stands as he used to. He also sells pots.
Iris

Thanks, Iris . . . Knittle seems to be a BIG name in Pennsylvania.

Love the stand Jim. That must have been a nice surprise for you.

Thanks, all. I'll have to make do with that tree on the stand for a while. Here's what we woke too this monring:

Wow that's a lot of snow for North Carolina. The cold is coming south too. We are forecast to get 3 more nights of freezing weather. Unbelievable.

Thank God for global warming ey Rob, imagine how cold it would be without it.

Ian.

Global warming.. Havent seen much of that!

Actually, all the crappy weather we've been having -- here and in Europe -- is probably attributable to so-called "global warming." A much better and more accurate term is global climate change.

Overall, the world's average temperatures are getting warmer every year. At the same time "weather" (a much different thing than "climate") is getting more and more variable and is becoming very erratic.

JimLewis wrote:Actually, all the crappy weather we've been having -- here and in Europe -- is probably attributable to so-called "global warming." A much better and more accurate term is global climate change.

Overall, the world's average temperatures are getting warmer every year. At the same time "weather" (a much different thing than "climate") is getting more and more variable and is becoming very erratic.

Jim, when I grew up on Long Island in New York, we learned the island was formed from a recessional moraine from the glaciers of the ice age. Yet there were no glaciers on top of Connecticut last time I checked, so obviously the earth warmed up and humans probably had nothing to do with it. So the earth's climate changes and will continue to change. The rate may vary but then that's life.

And I love how global warming folk can make any temperature difference part of their argument.
I should try that logic on some other topics. Playing golf and a guy hits a big slice out of bounds. You didn't slice that you encountered trajectory change, what you really had was a reverse hook and its due to the cows f*rting in the pasture. Might work.