Hi Jim,

The thrust and spirit of your suggestion is certainly a good one. However,
lest anyone get the wrong impression, the Bonsai Today "family" (Kindai
Bonsai, Bonsai Actual, Bonsai Today) is nothing of the sort. It is nothing
beyond a merchant-customer reationship that cascades down from Japan - with
the U.S. occupying the bottom rung. There is no rapport nor mutual support
expressed or implied in this realtionship. It is business, plain and
simple. Them's the breaks.

Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
www.andyrutledge.com/palaver/main.htm
zone 8, Texas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lewis"
Maybe the Bonsai Today family (Asia and Europe and USA, including
BTO) should get together and sponsor a competition of this
type -- either photographic like these three, or on the ground a
part of some major bonsai get-together -- like there's probably
time to plan it for the big gathering in Washington DC in 2005.
Jim Lewis

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