I went to the Bonsai Museum and the Rhododendron Species Garden yesterday. More to come next week about that adventure. For now, a Trident Maple from Japan that originated in 1945 and has been a bonsai since 1950, two years before I was born. (Stop by next week for one that originated in 1700!)

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Gretchen Staebler
I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer.
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Thank you so much for visiting, Gretchen!
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It was my pleasure to be there. Thank you for commenting!
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Amazing! I wonder what kind of magnification you would to count the rings in it?!
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Excellent wondering. Hmm.
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Bonsai seems very Zen.
(Bonsai is also a nickname I’ve had.)
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They are very meditative, I expect to create and maintain, and also to look at. Living, breathing art.
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