Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
I'm sorry I can't look at the children's drawings of the elder gods, that sounds interesting.

I don't mean this to be a cliche, CDNSushi, but do you ever see the bonsai over there in Japan?
Not SO cliché... I'd say there different "grades" of bonsai. There's the everyday variety of bonsai that people do with their own trees in their own yards and planters. I do it too with the trees growing on our property.

Then there's the bonsai "for show" -- top notch stuff done by people who have had some formal training in that discipline... It's the real McCoy that gets brought out to display at special events, ceremonies, and so on.

But even a basic, layman's interest in it has some following. Our next door neighbor actually grows bonsai (for resale). She keeps a minimum of about 20 of them at any given time in her front yard. Nowadays I don't think she sells anymore, since her husband passed away a few years back. I think she just keeps them in memory of her late spouse more than anything.