My daughter's recovery

Today my daughter is sick and I got a day off. While she was having a nap, I got a chance to prune one of my prospective bonsai trees. It is a small Trident Maple. I got it on sale from a hardware store about a month ago (left image). Since then I planted it in a bigger pot, bent its lower trunk and cut its entire upper crown (right image). Now, one of the former side branches is the new apex. I am yet to wire and bend the branches, but it will take a couple of years of pruning and wiring for it to become a bonsai. When my daughter woke up, she felt much better and her temperature came down.

P. S. To see what I did with this tree 3 years later see the following entry: http://lomov.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/root-graft.html

Growing Bonsai

My son is 11 cm taller than me now.

It has been more than a year since I started a regular non-research job in a zoo. I am unhappy with my job and I deal with it by growing bonsai. Crazy...

I still haven't published many of my research papers, which makes it even more annoying.

My son is taller than me?!

I am savouring the last few weeks of being taller than my son. At the moment he is eleven-and-a-half and about 5 mm shorter than me. It will be cool if he grows up to be a tall guy!
Other than that, I'm finished with the first version of my pollination paper. Now, I am incorporating the first round of corrections suggested by my research supervisor. After that it will be off to my co-supervisor, which is quite exciting.

I'll give it a try!

Decided to try this blogging. May be I will like it and contnue posting such entries.
It is Easter long weekend, but I'm at uni busting my butt doing pollen counts. My right hand hurts after making 15 thousand mouse clicks yeasterday and I'm planning to do the same today. I will finish it today at any cost.
My wife and kids are returning from Singleton today. Must call them after finishing this. My two days in Singleton were really enjoyable. Lake St Clare, Hunter Valley Gardens and the winery will be something to remember. Bye for now.

P. S. I had no idea where this blog was going. I dabbled in bonsai throughout the 90’s, but in those days I moved a lot, which wasn't conducive to growing bonsai. At the time of this blog post, I had two little trees in bonsai pots growing in the balcony of my small flat. I have been growing one of them since 2001 and still have it today. I must admit that I was completely isolated from the bonsai community and had limited access to the information about bonsai (January 2014).