Unless otherwise specifically stated, all pages herein  © 1999-2026  Robert J. Baran
All rights reserved.


While simple image editing such as cropping, color saturation or contrast changes have been employed
at times herein as well as some machine translation of text and, of course,
the continual use of several general or specialty search engines to hunt for text and images,
no Photoshop, LLM or any other AI technology has been used in the creation,
design or maintenance of this website EXCEPT for the folowing.
In May 2026 we started to ask deeper search questions of AI
when our normal deep searching has not provided specific results.
So far only the Jan Also, Apr 26, May 1, May 11, Jun 2, Jun 4,
Jul 2, Jul 7, Sep 11, Oct 6, Oct 23, and Nov 1
Bonsai Book of Days listings have been done this way
with the specific verbiage and source notes shown in this color font.
Some of the Books published before 1900 have AI results in their listings or Notes.
And a very few articles throughout.
More to come as I get additional details to these histories.
In other words, ALL OTHER references in this work are genuine,
none of the text or graphics herein are machine-compiled or composited -- they are all human-generated,
a majority of them before computers were used to archive such things.
Any "data mining" for this website is done painstakingly long-hand and
usually with an on-going spreadsheet by RJB.

MML has had 22,268 visitors from at least 120 nations and territories as of 07/24/2026.
(Originally as phoenixbonsai.com with 63,490 additional views
on Fast Counter and then Flag Counter by 04/25/2016.)
MML was started on MapLoco counter (02/24/16 - 01/24/26), and then switched back to Flag Counter,
which was most recently expanded on 07/24/2026 to include space for more flags.
(We keep a running spreadsheet with monthly counts from all the nations and territories.)