Friday afternoon I went to help set up the bonsai exhibit. These are the parking level makai elevators. No gun allowed, so if you need
to shoot someone on the way down, you're just out of luck.
The stage with its backdrop is set up.
We had to wait for our tables and chairs to be set up by the Convention Center crew.
Volunteers setting up the bonsai display.
Daniel's junipers on rocks. Photo by Andrea.
Roy's junipers on a rock. Photo by Andrea.
This is my premna root on rock bonsai with mondo grass accent.
Musical instruments upon the stage. They were all played together later.
Doors opened to the public at 9:00 AM.
It was a nice looking bonsai exhibit.
The dwarf podocarpus I worked on that Andrea bought. Photo by Andrea.
At 10:00 AM Andrea and I went to look at the cultural village and crafts fair.
A children's song and dance in the "cultural village."
Robin giving some pointers to Jonathan. Photo by Andrea.
Andrea dropped me off with a donation haggerbush bonsai and went to park the car at Ala Moana shopping center while I went to the FIRST
booth. Kalani High robotics team (3008) was there showing Vex robots. There was also a Lego robotics table.
Letting the kids play with robot controlling.
Miss Hawaii, Star Dahl-Thurston, came by to look at bonsai.
Andrea asked Miss Hawaii if she could take her photo with me working on a tree. Photo by Andrea.
I invited her to sit down to watch. Photo by Andrea.
I explained a number of basic principles of bonsai. Photo by Andrea.
Andrea at 2:00 PM.
Andrea and I watched some of the drum dancing.
The walking group.
There were several maiapilo flowers in our front yard that Andrea photographed.
Flying the Biden flag on Labor Day. It's also the flag of the USA. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Geobunga's new location in Honolulu. Photo by Andrea.
I scanned a nice letter from the morning paper. Fair use for educational purposes.
Wednesday morning Andrea walked again with the civil patrol..
Back at you.
The waitress offered to take our picture.
On Friday I went to Straub for my monthly shot and took this photo of Thomas Square while I was waiting. Saturday I mowed the lawn.
We worked on trees after the meeting. Photo by Andrea.
Discussion of the trees. Photo by Andrea.
Suzi greeted us when we arrived after the bonsai meeting. Photo by Andrea.
We walked Frazzle the dog down by the yacht harbor.
Suzi laid out a delicious spread for us.
She read some of her poetry to us.
On Tuesday I photographed the mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) that I will be doing the demonstration on at H'omaluhia Gardens
on Saturday the 23rd. Click the image to see the full resolution view.
I removed the tree from its pot and bare rooted it to do some root work. Click the image to see the full resolution view.
After repotting in a smaller (plastic) pot, I gave it a cover of sand to hold the soil and soaked it in water.
Click the image to see the full resolution view.
The repotted tree. The lopsided roots have been removed. Click the image to see the full resolution view.
It was a fine looking sunset.
First I salvaged some red clay from some store-bought junipers I had. I put them in some good potting soil.
I put a layer of medium Akadama in the bottom of the lotus pot, and put the layer of clay on top of that. Then I brought over the
lotus seedlings in their growing bowl. The stick is to poke holes in the clay.
I put in the five seedlings in a star pattern.
Then I covered the clay with a layer of coral sand.
I used the growing bowl to diffuse the water to float the lotus pads.
The finished product.
After dinner the water had cleared.
Sunday morning I photographed the dendrobium orchid that Andrea had bought at the Okinawan Festival.
Tuesday morning I finished transplanting the shimpaku junipers for the MHC workshop on November 18.
Wednesday morning I repotted five more junipers for the upcoming workshop. We now have 16 in good soil, eight shimpaku, and eight
prostrata.
Our table became full. Rich and Cathy, unknown woman with black hair, Bill Meyers, Carolyn Yacoe, unknown man on right corner, and Bob
next to Andrea. Service was slow because the restaurant wasn't prepared for the large crowd, but everyone got fed eventually.
Prof. Peter Sadowski's (right) 150 word introduction was written by ChatGP, a large language model (LLM).
There was a nice description of ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe preparation for colonization. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
John was up first and talked about the five major bonsai styles. Here he shows a formal upright black pine.
John talked about other styles besides the major five. Here he talks about the forest style.
After John's talk, I began a demonstration on a mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) I had brought.
I took the tree out of the growing pot and began defoliating and pruning the tree.
I wired several of the branches.
After potting the formal upright, I drenched it with water poured from the spray bottle.
After a layer of fine cinders as a top dressing, the bonsai is completed.
I had propped my book against John's dai so people could see it and order online if they chose. Many people came up afterward for a closer look.
Sunday I attended the afternoon Zoom session of the philosophy meet-up group. The topic was objectivity.
Official photo from Paris.
I walked with Randy and we talked a while. Photo by Andrea.
Tuesday morning we went to Lowes after our dual dental appointment and bought a new lawnmower.
I had to scan the receipt to register it for warranty.
I downloaded last year's certificate of appreciation for daily reporting of rainfall here.
The tree after growing several years in a terra cotta pot. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
The tree after branch removal, root pruning, and repoting in a cement growing pot. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Another view.
Our friend Carmella sat at our table with us.
Andrea got this great photo of the full moon on the way out.
Friday I painted a pair of pots while Andrea went to give tours at Mission Houses.
I added red and white paint to complete the two pots.
Charlene gave the introduction.
Patrick, president of the Rainbow Bonsai Club gave the potting demonstration.
Charlene demonstrated on the smaller tree.
The demonstration action.
Meanwhile, Andrea was volunteering at family day at Mission Houses.
I photographed the stage set before turning off my phone. They put out a bed and lowered some windows to make a bedroom scene.
At intermission we had champagne on the new lawn.
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