Drawing in the garden

300 years of caring for a tree

My wife and I went to the Portland Japanese Garden and we spent a delightful day. Besides walking and noticing things I spent time drawing in my sketchbook some of the things I saw and noticed. For example some of the bonsai trees are over 300 years old. Just imagine multiple generations of humans tenderly caring for a single tree! The very thought of that makes my soul happy - so I spent quite a lot of time drawing the various bonsai which have each been cared for by different families for generations! Wow! All of that caring!!!

Here's a photo my wife took of me drawing a few of the bonsai.

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