Nice work. You posted this tree a while back, I have one of its "siblings" that Joe Harris imported in a large group of field grown trees and placed in nursery containers at Matsunami-en. Igot one from DaveKreutz in 2005 (Washington, DC bonsai convention), Boon has had a one or two pass through the club as well. Nice material, just takes time, and Michael knows how to make them come along very well. Nice. As a post note, mine was given a rather significant hair cut in the past couple of weeks by the ravaging hordes of deer, I think you could train deer to do it very well, just have to teach them to leave a little green on the ends of the branches.....