had fun watching my grandson start to work on his Japanese Maple bonsai…

we picked up the Japanese Maple last spring and it lived in the garden for the summer and moved into the living room in the fall…

over the winter it lost all of its leaves, but new ones have just started to appear;-)…

lots of bits were trimmed off and quite a few types of wire were used to begin the process of bending branches to new spots…

this is the second try as the first one he worked on didn’t make it…

kind of exciting to see how it will turn out, although it is a very slow process…