This page will have your letters and some responses. The letters may
be edited but probably not. We will edit out most e-mail addresses
and possibly full names. If you wish to have your e-mail address
shown, please let us know. If you do not want the letter run, also
let us know. We will answer all letters as quickly as possible.
From: MadCityBon <madcitybon@madcitybonsai.com>
Date: October 19, 2005, at 11:49 PM
To: bonsailar@comcast.net
Subject: Club Articles
Let me introduce myself, my name is Paul Stokes. I am an avid bonsai enthusiast. I have been doing bonsai for around 5 years now.
I have a web site, http://www.madcitybonsai.com
The purpose of this website is to provide as much bonsai information as possible to whomever wants it.
I am writing to ask for donations of articles on any aspect of bonsai, from bonsai members or masters of your club such as your self, to put on my site. These do not have to be new articles at all. I would place any articles submitted on my articles page, each article would state written by you and copyrighted by you with the following statement. Copyright © 2005 "Insert your name here". All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without permission prohibited.
Think of this as a repository of bonsai information. Along with any and all other information you would like included on the article page, email, web link, description of you and/or your business, etc. Please pass theword around your club.
Several people have already submitted articles, Andy Rutledge, Ron Martin, Craig Coussins, and Al Keppler, with more on the way.
Also after a suggestion from Micheal Persiano, I will be adding a page called "Masterpiece Bonsai", you can also, if you wish, submit photos of your bonsai to be included on this page, along with species, age, years in training, size, etc. Your pictures would also state copyrighted and owned by you. Please feel free to send as many articles/photos or as few as you wish.
Thanks for your time,
-Paul
Paul,
My name is Larry Larimer. I am the editor of the Midwest Bonsai Society Newsletter, which you should be receiving since a couple of months ago.
I am also the care-taker, editor of our Web-site which you can access at www.midwestbonsai.org.
Is that where you got the e-mail address? I would very much like to know this. I am trying to be more interactive with all those people out there so I have put my e-mail address on the Web-site.
You may copy anything off the Web-site. There are a few articles which you may not use from the newsletter. Currently and specifically I refer to the DeGroot article in the October newsletter.
David DeGroot gave me permission to use this article but I cannot run it on the Web-site and I do not have the right to authorize its use in any other place.
If you have not received our newsletter, please let me know at this address and I will correct the problem .
I am starting a letter page on the Web-site. Your letter will appear in it, which may give you another outlet. Also this answer will appear on the Letter Page but it will be somewhat trimmed.
LARRY
From: Dana Koziatek
Date: October 16, 2005, at 9:19 PM CDT
To: bonsailar@comcast.net
Subject: Trees portion of the web site.
I just wanted to comment on how very good the photos of the show are and what a very nice addition to the web site. If I'm not mistaken I recognized most of the names of the artists. Were these meant to be shown off as talent that has been nurtured through the bonsai club? Maybe I'm just stretching things a little. Might I also suggest while I'm commenting that the calender page may need to be updated. It is still pointing towards the August show and we are meeting at the communtiy center already. Making you wonder who wrote this? Good! See you in November. -Dana
Dana,
Thank you for your comments. The trees of course were photographed at the show.
I wish I could always be more timely with the Web-site, but between working and the newsletter and going to Russia in September, I cannot always keep up.
The Web site is in the process of being changed and brought up to date now. The first change was to put in the e-mail address to which you sent your letter.
I am afraid I do not feel guilty about not keeping up. Before I took it over this year, it had not changed for about a year.
Incidentally, I will be starting a new page soon. This will be a letters page and your letter will be in it.
LARRY
From: "Razvan Savin" <razvan.savin@gmail.com>
Date: October 14, 2005 8:04:58 PM CDT
To: bonsailar@comcast.net
Subject: bonsai club
Hello. My name is Razvan and i am planning of founding the first bonsai club in Romania...we are very excited about it,but since we have no beautiful bonsai's, we have to ask other websites for photo rights. Hopefully, in a few years,we will be able to use our own bonsai photos. I was wondering if you could grant us the right to use some of the photos on your site...i assure you that they will be set temporarely, we don't intend on stealing other people's work.. the site address will be www.bonsaiclub.ro
Thank you in advance
Respectfully,
Razvan Savin
We gave him permission.
From: KW
Date: October 12, 2005, at 6:39 PM
To: bonsailar@comcast.net
Subject: Can a bonsai tree be poisonous to cats?
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me-my 11 year old daughter received a bonsai tree for her birthday which was a month ago and just yesterday our 4 year old cat died suddenly, could it be from the bonsai tree? Can they be posionous? I is an evergreen type that came from Trader Joes. Thank you for any help you can give me. Kim Wendling
K,
Yes, it is possible but with a bonsai from Traders it is unlikely. I really need more info. Did the bonsai have any fruit? Are the evergreen leaves very small and rather sharp?
Most bonsai sold at outlets like Trader Joe's, grocery stores, Epcot, etc are Procumbens nana and are non poisonous unless ingested in large quantities.
If your cat is like my cats, it would not have eaten enough to do more than throw up a hair-ball.
I will check our local Trader Joes and see what I can find about what kinds of trees they are selling as bonsai.
(Later) I did check Trader Joes and the tree was procumbens nana.
LARRY LARIMER
