A Country Place

Daniel LaRusso: Hey, what kind of belt do you have?
Mr. Miyagi: Canvas. J.C. Penny. Three ninety-​eight. You like. [laughs]
Daniel: No, I meant…
Mr. Miyagi: In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants. [laughs; then, seriously] Daniel-​san, karate here. [taps his head] Karate here. [taps his heart] Karate never here. [points to his belt] Understand?
Daniel: I think so.
Whenever I think of bonsai (not to be confused with BONZAI!!!) I think of Mr. Miyagi pruning his miniature trees. So since the 1984 release of Karate Kid I’ve wanted one. I’m not sure why. I’d most likely kill it. Not on purpose. I really do love trees (huge part of why I moved to Oregon).
Cindy and her husband sell some stunningly beautiful bonsai trees at really really reasonable prices. I’d never seen a Sakura (Japanese Cherry Blossom) bonsai tree before, but they had one. They even had a gorgeous Japanese maple, that like its larger cousins, was showing off its fall colors.
Many people don’t seem to understand that bonsai trees are real trees. Apparently people have taken them home and thought the trees dead when the leaves fell off in winter, is our society that ignorant? Anyway the point is you can only buy them at Saturday Market till the end of fall, because purchasing bare trees is too confusing.
Hopefully by spring we’ll have a more permanent residence, and if we do maybe we’ll also have a beautiful bonsai to go with it.
Photos:http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/rQtCPiJOa-lBubReU0UCLA?select=QpLxWhqg-1WqkhSHlB8Elg