grouper52
Masterpiece
For once I am not leaving a bonsai forum after some upsetting incident!
I've not been active here at BNut for a number of months now due to the time-consuming rigors of preparing our house for sale, and during that time I've sold or given away all my potted trees, all the starter material I had been growing in the ground, and all my display slabs I had advertised here. So, I am leaving because I have no trees to post: essentially, I am no longer practicing bonsai.
I may come back and resume my connection to BNut once I've settled in Baguio in the Philippines in a few years, since I hope to resume the hobby there, and have packed my tools and my photographic equipment. I'm thinking I may even write and photograph another book once there, featuring the stories and works of a few of the wonderful but unknown bonsai artists there. We'll see: one major bonsai book is probably enough for one lifetime . . . but who knows.
My apologies to the folks with whom I made preliminary arrangements to sell some of my trees in the spring - given the practicalities and friendships involved here, it seemed best to let them go locally. Indeed, even my beloved Siberian hemlock, with the last remaining blood of the gulag running through its sap wood, was relinquished back to Olga during a chance meeting, in exchange for some vodka and other pleasures . . .
So, may you all be well and happy until we meet again, and may your trees do so as well.
Will/Grouper52
I've not been active here at BNut for a number of months now due to the time-consuming rigors of preparing our house for sale, and during that time I've sold or given away all my potted trees, all the starter material I had been growing in the ground, and all my display slabs I had advertised here. So, I am leaving because I have no trees to post: essentially, I am no longer practicing bonsai.
I may come back and resume my connection to BNut once I've settled in Baguio in the Philippines in a few years, since I hope to resume the hobby there, and have packed my tools and my photographic equipment. I'm thinking I may even write and photograph another book once there, featuring the stories and works of a few of the wonderful but unknown bonsai artists there. We'll see: one major bonsai book is probably enough for one lifetime . . . but who knows.
My apologies to the folks with whom I made preliminary arrangements to sell some of my trees in the spring - given the practicalities and friendships involved here, it seemed best to let them go locally. Indeed, even my beloved Siberian hemlock, with the last remaining blood of the gulag running through its sap wood, was relinquished back to Olga during a chance meeting, in exchange for some vodka and other pleasures . . .
So, may you all be well and happy until we meet again, and may your trees do so as well.
Will/Grouper52
