When I was little my bothers and I must have watched The Swiss Family Robinson close to a billion times. We loved it! I think the idea of living in a tree house is every child’s dream and this movie certainly featured a most spectacular one. (start watching at 5.05 for the tree house “tour”)
There are now some absolutely lovely tree houses out there. This site features some particularly amazing ones. I think the Swiss family tree house will always be my favorite. (I mean, come on, it had retractable stairs to keep the tigers out!) But I could certainly be happy in any of these adventurous homes.
[Some pictures with link to source, but unfortunately some I collected a long time ago and don't have sources for anymore. My apologies!]
These look wonderful! I could certainly live in a tree house :)
Greetings,
poet
PS: I have also passed on the Lemonade Award to you!
How cool are those?! I’m not much of a camper any more but if I could stay in one of those for a weekend (except the one so high it’s over the canopy). BTW, you asked about my favorite reads in a comment last week and I included them in my Sunday Salon this week! Thanks for asking!
This is awesome!! I want a tree hut this cool :)
Hi,
concerning Berkeley: I’m doing my PhD in Linguistics, so I don’t really know what the English Literature program is like. There’s no creative writing master program I know of, either. I was under the impression that the Comparative Literature guys are a cool bunch of people, though (unless you want to work on Ancient Hebrew, for which nobody is willing to advise. A friend of mine had that problem).
Hope this helps,
poet
yum! when i was wee, we had a tree house woven with living branches, it still sprouted leaves in the spring and grew it was a pretty amazing thing my grandpa built for us. sigh happy memories. wish i still had my tree house to escape into, up there amongst the trees.
i read a article years ago about a lady who was a new york yuppie during the week but escaped to a very eco tree house on the weekends. it had no electricity and was built in such a way that when the trees it was built in swayed so did the house! it sounded so magical to me.
Tree houses are a tender fantasy, a place where one can catch the sweet breeze and look out across the world. Ah.
Spirithelpers
Those tree houses are amazing!!! I would love to live in one! :)
Nice to have you here Tammie! I wonder if I can get wireless internet in my tree house so my blog won’t suffer… ;-) Thanks for stopping by!