Kitabi meetings
Ugh, I have not been very good at updating during the winter, have I. I always get a bit bonsai depressed during the dark months, with almost all trees in storage, and nothing to do with them. But, when the sun starts to shine for more and more hours, I also feel a stronger and stronger urge to start working on my trees. Which, this year, will still have to wait for some time. The spring is late, we are about two weeks after normal spring. Everything is buried under snow, the greenhouse is unreachable, and I think we will have to wait until Midsummer for all the snow to melt. Look at this picture, taken about some weeks ago:
The bonsai club Kitabi has already held two meetings. The first contained the ordinary annual year meeting stuff, you know the going though the accounts for last year, deciding members for the board and all that. After that we worked on a quite big Chinese elm. The second meeting was held today, and Teemu Oja showed two Zelkovas and what spring work they were in need of, and a "Jaqueline Hillier" elm. I and Kaj Simberg had also a couple of trees with us, I a Japanese maple 'Kiyohime' and a satsuki azalea, and Kaj a mountain pine. We had several new members on both meetings, and that was great! I hope we will see all of you at next meeting too! The next meeting will be held on April 17. For more information closer to the meeting, see Kitabi's home page.