Although it has been said (and noted) that the growth of bonsai trees are not good feng shui, I do find them quite entrancing whenever I get to see some nice examples of such. Having attended this past Sunday the Sakura (cherry blossom) festival in Brooklyn, there were exhibited a small number of bonsai to be appreciated. It got me thinking whether I wanted to own one, but as usual, I decided that perhaps it is best not to. For exhibit A, I would like to offer the following example- a really beautiful bonsai (about seven hundred years old at the time) that was taken from its natural environment and which almost a hundred years later wound up in the collection of a "famous" bonsai master. Not being a "master," the tree withered away, leaving only its gnarled (but magnificent) trunk. I guess that with the exception of some house orchids, I would have to say that it best to appreciate nature in nature.
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twisting, turning. glorious.
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| the superior bonsai against a weak orientalized background |
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