{"id":12871,"date":"2023-05-05T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T02:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2023-05-06T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T20:50:46","slug":"no-time-like-the-present-to-yield-to-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=12871","title":{"rendered":"No time like the present to yield to desire\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

For reasons unknown
\nI’ve wanted to creatively engage with a “bonsai tree”
\nmost of my adult life.
\nI’ve been gifted with 2 or 3 over the decades.
\nThe little super market varieties. Pretty much destined to die.
\nSooner rather than later.
\nI did manage to nurture a wonderful bonsai box elder
\nwhich seeded itself in a beautiful, ancient, landscape rock, at the Mequon Road House.
\nI moved that rock and little bonsai tree to the Wasaukee Road House in 2014.
\nBut was unable to move it; or remove the tree from its rock; when forced to sell that home in 2022.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Today. My final attempt, to engage in a creative encounter with a bonsai, arrived in the mail;
\nalong with instructions, proper soil, pruning shears, shaping wire, fertilizer, and an $8, on-line, video class, access code.
\nThis Juniper is old enough to withstand some minor mistakes on my part.
\nYet not so old as to be unaffordable.
\nSo. Repotted as instructed. A bit of minor wiring and trimming\u2026 and we’re in a relationship.
\nSort of like my new “adopted” bird friends:
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\n(click images for larger view)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For reasons unknown I’ve wanted to creatively engage with a “bonsai tree” most of my adult life. I’ve been gifted with 2 or 3 over the decades. The little super market varieties. Pretty much destined to die. Sooner rather than later. I did manage to nurture a wonderful bonsai box elder which seeded itself in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,19,33,17,28,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","category-things","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12882,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}