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Part 1 Part 2 After getting some bamboo from Cass Bonsai, I decided to start working on the shade section of the bonsai garden. My overall goal with the bamboo is to hide (year round) some of the structural components, e.g. pvc pipes, concrete footings, electrical cords, etc. The stands are constructed differently than what I did in… Continue reading CONSTRUCTING A BACKYARD BONSAI GARDEN: PART 3
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Part 1: Constructing a Backyard Bonsai Garden The second phase of our garden was to get gravel to place underneath the benches. The rock would serve two purposes: aesthetics and drainage. In addition to the top layer of gravel, we dug a trench from the house all the way down into the ravine. Our house as settled quite a bit since… Continue reading CONSTRUCTING A BACKYARD BONSAI GARDEN: PART 2
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We moved into our new house in May of 2015. The back yard consists of a small, flat spot with a large ravine. I (*cough* wife) wanted to have a designated spot for my bonsai that did not include our deck. So thus, the adventure of building a complete bonsai garden, in our back yard, began. This was our yard before… Continue reading CONSTRUCTING A BACKYARD BONSAI GARDEN: PART 1
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Our family made our annual trek to the Midwest Bonsai Exhibition at the Chicago Botanical Gardens this past weekend. We traveled up Thursday night and stayed with a relative and went to the gardens early Friday morning. The first part of this blog post will focus on the bonsai collection at the Chicago Botanical Gardens while the second will focus… Continue reading THE 39th ANNUAL MID-AMERICAN BONSAI EXHIBITION: PART 1 – CHICAGO BOTAICAL GARDENS: BONSAI COLLECTION
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Part 1: Chicago Botanical Gardens: Bonsai Collection The exhibition quality has gotten better each year I attended (although my favorite first place tree – Bill Valavanis’ Arakawa Maple – was in the first show I attended). I took over 290 pictures of both the bonsai garden and exhibition! I hope you are able to enjoy the photographs if you were… Continue reading THE 39th ANNUAL MID-AMERICAN BONSAI EXHIBITION: PART 2 – BONSAI EXHIBITION
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Our journey into the Yasuni Bioshere Reserve and Shiripuno Lodge began at a hotel in Coca. The day before we had been in the car for five hours so that we could depart for be picked up by thus bus that would take us to the Shiripuno River. The drive to the river was almost three hours but we eventually… Continue reading Ecuador Part 3. – The Amazon
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We left the Yellow House for the final time and made the two hour drive to Reserva Yanacocha where we would search for some localized high elevation cloud forest species. The first new birds we saw were the small Tyrain Metaltail and the stocky Shining Sunbeam visiting the very active hummingbird feders. Shining Sunbeam We walked around the well kept… Continue reading Ecuador Part 2. – The Andes
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I woke up early hoping to see a few lifers before we set out to any other location. I began to look out from the balcony at the Yellow House a very nice place to stay for any birder. I saw more and more lifers some of them I did not see again during the trip such as the inquisitive… Continue reading Ecuador Part 1. – The Choco
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? I was in Japan for a week over work. The Sakura trees were in full bloom! A good 10 days early. ? Tokyo was resplendent with the most amazing trees all over. I went to Sakura Zaka ie Sakura Slope and stared in amazement at the beauty of the trees. The 5 km walk around the Imperial palace, the palace… Continue reading Glorious Magical Enchanting Kyoto
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