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1月26日 2008 SnowshoeingWell, it's 15 degrees in the passes with snow falling, so there's nothing like a little snowshoeing! We packed up the car with all the cold weather gear and ate a huge breakfast. Then it's off to the passes in the mountains for a little hike. We checked in at the trailhead and headed out.
The trees were all sporting their winter best, with huge coats of snow. The snowpack is about 105 inches, so we were walking level with the middle of most of the trees. From time to time we could look down through a crevace in the snowpack and see how far up we were!
It was snowing lightly when we got there, but it started snowing a lot harder so we only went a few miles before we turned around and headed back to base.
On the way home the snow really started falling - we counted 6 (six!) different cars rollwed over or flipped on their sides in only ten miles. The police were at each of them, and everyone looked OK, but the cars (mostly SUV's) didn't look very good. We took it slow and got home with all four wheels on the ground! 1月12日 2008 Bonsai ExhibitJust down the road from the house is a Bonsai (miniature tree) exhibit. Even though it was raining a little, we jumped in the car and headed down to see it.
I've always been facinated by these beautiful plants. Any tree can be made into a bonsai, it just requires a small pot, a tree seedling, and lots of vision and patience. By limiting the soil and water the tree gets, it grows more slowly.
The art is in making a small tree look large. You can do this by trimming, and using flexible wire to "train" the tree to grow in a certain direction. By thinning out the foliage and training the branches to droop downwards, you give the tree the look of a larger one.
Bonsai are passed down in the families, and some of these at the exhibit are over 200 years old. Imagine keeping a living thing in the family and cared for that long!
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