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Barbazza

Today Tomaž H. , Matej, Bojan, Janez O. and I haded to Italy to the Barbazza bonsai center.
Man, this was a cold day. It was the first time that I bought bonsai at -6°C. And they had as much snow as we had - which is unusual for that region.
Anyway, we had a very good time and I hope to repeat it soon.

Second snow

We got another deloverry of snow this weekend.

First snow

We finally got this year's first snow today. As every other season of the year, winter is nice. We really have a fortune to live in a world with different year seasons.

Winter images

willow
larch

maple

japaneese maple (shohin)

Maple getting nice

The maple I stylet on the last time got repotted. And I must say, when I look at the past images of this one I'm astouned of how it looked like. This one will become a lovely tree.

After styling

After the repotting

And this is the first photo taken in 2007

Firethorn winter image

Last wotkshop of this year

Today was the last club workshop of the year. It was in Logatec.
Sadly I forgot my camera at home, so I had to help myself with my bad telephone camera. That is why this time only one photo.
Here some more photos:
PHOTOS

Shohin shimpaku

As one of the last projects of this year, I worked on this little juniper I got a while ago. It came up to be quite a callange, but I think it came too bee a nice little shohin afterall.

Before work

After cleaning

After styling

And from the side

And now I have to find a decent pot for it. But that's another story.

Glimpse

Just a glimpse from this years' hiking in the mountains.

pinus mugo

Last hunt of the year

Digging for yamadori is over for this year. In the mountains is allredy cold.
Yamadori, see you next year!

The remains of today's digging. (The hole was filled and covered afterwards.)

Repotted mini forsythia

In Opatia, Croatia I finally found a fitting pot (Walsall ceramics) for my mini forsythia.

Autumn in full flow

The first thing I noticed when I came back from Croatia, was how much the color of my bonsai changed.

Exhibition in Croatia

This weekend, the 24. and 25. October, our delegation (my family included) visited the South naber country, Croatia for the exhibition.
After two years since I was there the last time they made quite some progression on the exhibition quallity. They even brought in a world renown bonsai artist Mauro Stemberger, the president of the Italian UBI.
It was a nice weekend with old and new friends.

The place of the happening.

Mauro in action.

A part of the Slovenian delegation.

A nice peace of material.

Again there was quite a lot of blood.

Left: Peter Evans, who flew all the way from England, just for the exhibit.

Ofcorse we didn't manage witouth relaxation.

A Slovenian bonsai (right).

My azalea.

Some other bonsai.

And for the finish, the olive from Mauro.