Winter Silhouettes Trip
Saturday, January 22, 2022
It is once again time for us to visit our friends, Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyukai, and enjoy their annual Winter Silhouettes show, potluck dinner, sale, raffle, and live auction at the Los Angeles Arboretum. Each of the bonsai on exhibit are deciduous and as you may assume from the title, in their leafless winter glory. Some may still have their fall fruit, others may have new spring blossoms. The members of Baikoen are very talented and put on a spectacular show.
The cost for the trip is $40 for the bus and a dessert to share at the potluck meeting that evening. We will depart from the Balboa Park bus staging area (Navy Hospital lower parking lot) at 11:00AM and the Mira Mesa Park & Ride staging area at 11:30AM. We will return to Mira Mesa by around 10:45 PM and Balboa Park by 11:00PM.
Please bring:
It is once again time for us to visit our friends, Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyukai, and enjoy their annual Winter Silhouettes show, potluck dinner, sale, raffle, and live auction at the Los Angeles Arboretum. Each of the bonsai on exhibit are deciduous and as you may assume from the title, in their leafless winter glory. Some may still have their fall fruit, others may have new spring blossoms. The members of Baikoen are very talented and put on a spectacular show.
The cost for the trip is $40 for the bus and a dessert to share at the potluck meeting that evening. We will depart from the Balboa Park bus staging area (Navy Hospital lower parking lot) at 11:00AM and the Mira Mesa Park & Ride staging area at 11:30AM. We will return to Mira Mesa by around 10:45 PM and Balboa Park by 11:00PM.
Please bring:
- Sack lunch or snacks as we will not be stopping for food until the 6PM dinner
- A dessert to share at the dinner
- Raffle or auction items to donate
- Checks, credit cards, or cash to purchase raffle tickets, auction items and for nursery shopping
2020 Winter Silhouettes Trip
Saturday January 18, 2020 trip to the Winter Silhouettes show. On the way up, we will visit Jidai Bonsai Nursery. The bus departs Balboa Park at 11:00 am sharp and Carlsbad at 11:30 am. We will be back in Balboa Park at 11:00 pm.
"Winter Silhouettes bonsai show at the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum exhibits the best work of California's own bonsai masters. The trees displayed, all deciduous species in their leafless stage, are such perfect miniatures of full-grown trees that they do, indeed, seem to verge on the magical." -- LA Times
San Diego Pickup:Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, southwest parking lot. From Park Blvd, turn east onto President's Way then take the very next right and proceed to the lower parking lot. 11AM
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Carlsbad Pickup:Behind the Shell Station, on Pio Pico Dr., across from 3050 Pico Pico Dr. 11:30AM
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