Then his gaze ranged across the rancho the fishponds, the tree house, the thistle-filled pasture, the collapsing farmhouse.
The tree house was a way for him to reconnect to the land and his young family.
His vision of the tree house, which was going to be a surprise, grew more and more ambitious.
Some of the key attractions will include The Lodge featuring a range of shops and a restaurant, as well as Teahouse in the Tree House set in an old sycamore tree.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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Located at the foot of the rocky Taurus Mountains, the tree-house villages are a modern beach idyll.
The very first tree visitors see as they enter the White House is the Gold Star Family tree.
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The official White House Christmas tree, which stands tall in the center of the Blue Room, honors the courageous service of the troops, veterans, and military families who serve our country with pride.
The Treehotel is the unintended legacy of a 2008 Swedish documentary called "Tradalskaren" (The Tree Lover) that tells the story of three men who build a tree house near Harads in an attempt to rediscover their rural roots after years of living in a city.
The architect created a tree house-like design, where two floors of living space floated above ground, anchored by a steel support.
He picked up a rotting banana skin and hung it on the leaves of a neem tree that grew near the gate of the house, so that it would startle the owners when they came out.
Not far from here, in the Blue Room, is the official White House Christmas Tree.
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One living room is a tree house called the Mushroom Dome, with an upstairs nap area.
And with the large tree that shaded her house now down, she can't spend much time indoors.
In the Entrance Hall on the State Floor, crystal snowflakes hang from the ceiling above visitors as they walk toward the Blue Room, home to the official White House Christmas Tree, also decorated in honor of military families.
Originally it may have been part of an orchard but as the city spread north it became part of a large London garden, the one behind Mr Kossoff's house, and he can see the tree from his studio window.
That spanking new table saw or nail gun under the Christmas tree may deliver quite the thrill to the handyman in your house.
Public Schools wrote a letter to the White House asking if they could put up a Christmas tree on the South Lawn.
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The Anne Frank House told Judge Bade it was in favour of felling the tree, out of concern for the safety of the building and the hundreds of thousands of visitors it receives each year.
Nana guessed that Pete was under that bulb, either there or in his tree house, designed for the children, co-opted by him.
"I got home to find one tree crashed onto the front of my house, another crashed from my garden into my neighbour's garden, and chimneys smashed to smithereens after falling off my neighbour's house, " said Liz Munro from Moseley.
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The grounds encompass two guest houses, a tennis court, several greenhouses, a tree house, rose and vegetable gardens, and a second hidden driveway entrance onto the property.
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The Secretary-General then visited the UN House in Yangon, where he planted a tree sapling, unveiled a plaque commemorating his visit and inaugurated a new U Thant Conference Room in the complex.
And any Gold Star family who visits the White House during this season will have the opportunity to decorate their own ornament and hang it on that very tree for the entire holiday period in honor of their loved ones.
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Stephanie Crocker started in 2001 when she and her husband John bought a house that had an old apple tree in the backyard.
On the main street near our house, a very large maple tree had snapped in half and was festooned with power lines, blocking half the road.
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His mental images of the ranch had blurred and faded, leaving only a house with a hole in the middle, an enormous, threatening tree, and a barn flickering with shadows that might have been rats.
In 2007 Mr. Okada chose to build on the current piece of land because he liked that there was a traditional house across the street and a shrine next door with a big cherry blossom tree.
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