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| Many bonsai against the backdrop of the hotel's inner courtyard.
| A massive redwood, fifty times smaller than usual. I wish I knew how old
it is; the card doesn't say.
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| I feel like I've seen this during a hike, just not at this scale.
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| | I didn't realize azaleas could bloom so much all at once. Some higher
power (i.e., bonsai manipulator) must be in control.
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| Bushy, and nearly perfectly spherical.
| | I think it's reaching out for something. And, at sixty-five years old, it
must've been reaching for some time.
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| I suppose it's possible that this could've been the intertwined junipers I
saw two years ago.
| Detail of the character of the bark.
| It's 900+ years old!
| Look closely: it's a tree growing out of an old trunk.
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| What a sunny glade!
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| Twisting and turning.
| | A dense woods. When fairy tales always mention the hero hacking his way
through (previously) impassible forests, I always imagine a scene like
this.
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| Another tour-de-force in balance.
| Detail of where the trunk enters the soil.
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