it was a busy weekend. i can finally say that the majority of my fall clean-up is finished. i still have leftover leaves to rake and the lawn to keep mowing shorter and shorter, but the majority of it is finished. i'm still getting ideas of how to redo the garden for erin next year. we are going to extend it and block it off from the kiddies. i have all these plans swirling around in my head, so i'm sorting out the good ones and i'm going to draw them out so erin can either say "yea" or "nay".

i've started looking at my bonsai books and i'm trying to figure out where i can get some specimens for my stock. there are so many variations of bonsai that i want to try and get a hang of. i am probably going to stick with the maple genus. i am also going to do wisteria, oak, some pine/juniper, and a few other miscellaneous trees.