Photo op. Photo by Andrea.
Pointing at the bonsai exhibit on a map of the festival. Photo by Andrea.
We arrived early, shortly after noon. The space had been set up for us as usual.
Andrea, Sandy, and I put up the HBA banner. Photo by Andrea.
I set up my display bonsai, an upright escambron with mountain viewing stone.
Sandy's Chinese banyan on rock. She borrowed my red ti as an accent plant.
Metaphotography. Photo by Andrea.
George's two exceptional shohin displays.
Warren's penjing juniper on the left.
Daniel's exhilerating flying banyan bonsai.
Alvin's tremendous neagari black pine.
Beautiful driftwood style.
Black pine shakan.
Sandy's three tree banyan on rock.
Willow leaf ficus formal upright.
Podocarpus and banyan.
My escambron and Joshua's yellow flower tree.
Alvin turned my tree to a different front. I prefer the former (see setup), but I left it.
The sales area is ready to go.
Our first Okinawan VIP.
View from the back.
The plant sale in the second hall. Bon dance pole raising ceremony in the background.
FIRST robics teams at their booth with keiki.
Bon dance pole raising. The men took turns bouncing it up and down in the air with their strong legs.
Entering procession.
Big video screen at the "country store" in the other hall where our bonsai display was.
Maggie, a radio personality with KZOO in Honolulu came to our display and invited me to be interviewed on-air. It was fun.
She would ask a question in English, I would answer while she took notes, then she would translate my answer into Japanese, and repeat.
Lawrence, VP of HBA and president of Pacific Bonsai Club, talked to a friend.
Inside the "cultural village."
A crafts class in the cultural village.
Okinawan dance.
Hula to okinawan music.
Hula and okinawan dance to Hawaiian music.
At the entrance to the cultural village.
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