NEXT MEETING -- September 10,
2004
7:00-8p.m.
Tool Sharpening by Lonnie McCormick
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8:00-10p.m.
Saikei demo by Ed Poggensee and Sandy
Planting.
Saikei, when translated literally into
English means "living landscape." In practice, it
is a group planting with rocks.
Ed is donating
the "rocks", a red slate slab and the shohin size
olives he has been growing for several years. The
rocks are actually a desert mineral deposit type
rock that were collected by the late founding club
members Connie and Horace Hinds then epoxied
together. The finished product will go in to the
benefit drawing.
A good reference
is the book by Toshio Kawamoto -- Saikei: Living Landscapes
in Miniature.
Our New Year
Kusamura
traditionally starts its new year in September, not
unlike the old agrarian calendars that ended with
the harvest bounty. Although we don't harvest
bonsai, it is a time to reflect on the progress of
our collections.
This will be our
first meeting with the new officers in charge.
Message from the New
President
I look forward to
this coming year as your new president. I look
forward to working with everyone to make this year
a success.
I want to thank
those who came to our summer's end garden tour and
barbeque. I also want to thank Jim Ransohoff, Sandy
Vrooman and Michael Greenstein for opening up their
gardens for all to see. I especially want to thank
Thoi Nguyen for preparing such delicious lamb and
hosting the barbeque that ended this day.
There will be a
board meeting at my house on Oct. 12th. The board
members and I hope we can come up with programs
that the members find interesting and informative.
We will have our
show once more at De Anza even though it is rather
expensive to rent and hard to get to. Hopefully we
can continue to refine the problems as we began to
last year. We did better on unloading and loading
trees. Now we know we can drive right up to the
front door and dismiss using the ramps. We know to
check and see what other events are scheduled for
the same weekend so there are no surprises. And we
know we need better signs.
Thinking ahead to
the show means, trees for the plant sale. Your
three individual donations as well as the club
purchased trees styled at the potting parties. John
and Sandy Planting have hosted these functions for
over 20 years. However, attendance at these affairs
has dropped off in the last couple of years to the
point that it is hardly worth the effort they put
in. Not only do they act as hosts allowing us to
use their garage and tools, they put in clean-up
time both before and after.
We need more
attendance and more people willing to help. The
alternative is a floating affair at other members
homes (entailing a lot more work), a higher number
of donation trees, or much higher dues. It's your
club, think about what you want it to
become.
We will again
accept consignment trees for sale.
Your board has
tentatively arranged the program for the rest of
this calendar year as follows.
October
meeting will tentatively be with Kathy
Shaner.
November will
be a demo by Yousuke Omizo (Yasuo Mitsuya's last
apprentice after Kathy) There will also be a Friday
afternoon workshop for 6 or 8 people at the
Plantings with Yousuke Omizo.
December will
be our annual Christmas party and pot luck.
Ed
Poggensee
