Only the Surface Waves 7/28/15

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These three trees belong to Masahiko Kimura. I lifted (and cropped) this photo from El Tim Bonsai. It's a Spanish language blog with an English language option.

The Tim. I have long admired the great photos and great dedication to bonsai expressed on the El Tim Bonsai blog (the original Spanish language version and an English language version).

The photos shown here are from El Tim’s visit to Masahiko Kimura’s nursery on a recent Japan trip. They are the tip of the Kimura iceberg and only the surface waves on El Tim’s vast ocean of great bonsai photos.

 

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If you could only see the trunk on this pine, you might think it's a juniper (deadwood dominated trunks are very common with junipers and less common with pines; in part because deadwood on pines tends to decompose much faster than juniper deadwood).

 

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The whole tree.

 

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More deadwood. This time it's a juniper (Shimpaku).

 

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The whole tree with some Seussian strangeness behind.

 

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We’re on a bit of a Kimura roll these days. If your appetite is
properly whetted, you just might enjoy this wonderful book.