Yes I believe the beech was on my list too. I know my dad was talking about it, he liked it a lot.
While I was there I bought a fairly good sized cork bark elm. I also have a shimpaku juniper cutting I hope will root from Ken's demonstration. Although I didn't realize about the moss on the tree being bad until I got it home and read it on here, I believe in one of your threads on here. Which is too bad because I thought it looked neat hanging off like that.
Well you're in the bonsai club right? I plan to sit in on a meeting and see how I it, maybe I'll meet you then. I'm probably not too hard to recognize in the summer wearing shorts, not too many young people have to wear compression stockings.