I went last weekend to the Lone Star Bonsai Show in Ft. Worth Texas, it's about a three hour drive, short out here. A friend went with me so it was a quick trip swapping lies. We stayed about three hours enjoyed visiting with old friends, viewing the display trees, nothing fancy. We walked around the vender area a few hundred times deciding if there was anything we couldn't live without, John Kirby was there with three JBP for sale, none of which my pockets were deep enough to bring home. I met a really nice man from California that was wiring one of John's JBP's named Peter Tea(sp?). Now as much fun as that was, I don't think I would swap it for an evening into the late hours, sitting out under one of my shade trees, enjoying a cool breeze, shooting the shit about bonsai, drinking our favorite poison while the mosquitoes chew us up, surrounded by my trees. Kind of like fishermen, the more you drink, the taller the stories get about the one that got away. Come visit after you put up your stands, scrolls and accent plants and I'll even grill up some Oklahoma beef.
keep it green,
Harry