First Spring Workshop at Pavement Ends

Wow! It was really good to have some folks over to work on trees. Robert, Ciro (Atlas), and Vic (VicN) are with me doing the "National Enquirer-point-at-what-we-are-shooting-anyway" pose.

This is a pretty nice Japanese black pine owned by Ciro. The plan was to wire the tree and give it a good styling. Ciro came after lunch, so we only got partly finished. I beg indulgence over the wiring of the first branch.
Here's that first branch brought down, and the back branch down and to the left. I suggested to Ciro that we remove the first branch because the tree has wonderful upper movement and I think there is far too much space between this one and the next.


If you notice the blinding whiteness out the windows, you will realize that it snowed pretty good the day before, so we moved inside in the 8-degree (Fahrenheit) temps. Hard to heat the shop.

There's Robert, Tom (ksbonsai), Bill (BillKCMO), and Vic (VicN) looking over some of the stuff we want to work on. We never got to the little junipers.