Rancho Renteria-Takata constantly gets tweaked and adjusted and moved and altered.
Working in commercial and private yards there’s a lot of stuff that gets thrown out for newer shiner things. That’s where the majority of my collected material has come from. 10 or so years in the industry has turned into a lot of come ups.
5 years ago I used to do maintenance at the century plaza towers and the company I was with was going to task me to cut all the metal furniture down and throw it in the dumpster. Instead I got my moms van and came up on it. Since then we all use it, even my dogs and it’s still structurally sound.
Process photos from the new lil studio. It’s a welded steel structure wrapped in 2x2 wood lath. Multi use for my mom and I to make work in. Excited to give all my tools and material a new home. Has some elements of a bunker, a basket and a horse stable. 3 sliding doors and power for a potters wheel, a chop saw or whatever comes my way.
Field report from @bloolauren of Salix bonplandiana (a type of willow) and Moctezuma cypress at el Lago de Camecuaro in Michoacán. Moctezuma cypress trees are colloquially known as Ahuehuetes. The Nahuatl name āhuēhuētl means “old man of the water” or “upright drum in the water”. The famous John Naka’s first bonsai tree was a Moctezuma cypress.
This is my second successful attempt at propagating Pachycormus discolor from cutting.
1/10 small cuttings rooted
Planted the cuttings is pure perlite and watered it once a week.
