Mad City BonsaiThe Ramblings of Paul Stokes

I find it very interesting that the Art of Bonsai Project gets hundreds, or you could say record breaking amounts of entries to their Art of Bonsai Awards. Yet the Knowledge of Bonsai Forums struggles to get more than 20 in the Knowledge of Bonsai Forums Progressive Styling Contest. It is true that one could say that you would acually have to do work or put in some accual physical effort to be a condender, and one could say that you really would not have to do much of anything (now that is) to enter AoB Awards.

The Facts

AoB Awards Stats:
226 entries from the following countries.
“The 25 countries that are participating are:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, Mexico, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA, Venezuela”

KoB Stats:
19 entries from the following countries.
Austria, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Spain, USA

Prizes:
The prize offerings are almost equal, minus the “sponsor” awards.

So I am asking you, the readers (if there are any)

• Why did/would you enter one contest over the other?
• Why did you not enter one or the other?
• What would make you enter either contest

Until next time;
-Paul Stokes

I am going to bring this blog back to life, if it ever had one that is. Stay tuned to read my thoughts on various subjucts and yes it will include writting about bonsai stuff.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.
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Friends,
I thought that the winter season was over for the year, boy was I wrong! We got blasted by 8-18 inches of the lovely white stuff on friday. Maybe this is the last one?

I survived with a sever case of the flu, not the stomach flu, but the flu non the less.
Talk to you soon.

Well. . .it is that time of year again. Time to knock off all of the snow, pull out that tree that you were thinking of working on. Digging the camera out of that dang old junk drawer.

OR

Tidying up that masterpiece or soon-to-be masterpiece.

And taking some good quality pictures.

We are always looking for more quality prizes, no donation is too small.

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