[Nettime-bold] tree houses

[Beatrice Beaubien <i2eye@mac.com>]

Four years ago, while my son and I explored the woods in back of the beach at our cottage we found a small universe. 

There is a path made by deer just back from the water's edge all along the lake, hidden by the scrub willow that grow at the water's edge. We had only followed this wild path for about twenty feet when we saw them. Five platforms built high in the beeches and birches, connected by walkways. From the start of this series of structures there were ladders, rudimentary, built of short lengths of straight cedar. The platforms, thirty feet up in the trees, were solid, nailed together and secured with yellow nylon rope. The connecting pathways were for the brave at heart, consisting only of two cedar saplings roped at each end.

The next year when we arrived and came down to the lakeside path, we saw that the tree houses were even more extensive, and the previous platforms were more robust, with new planks.

This year we saw they were falling in to disrepair.

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I would like to know,

on behalf of  the person that built this network,

have any of our francophone contingent read Calvino's Baron in the Trees in French? I would like to get it for the person who built our forest canopy home, but would like a recommendation first.

merci,

Biti

P.S. At our domaine d'été over the last thirty years, building tree houses has been a conventional summer activity. But to build a network of platforms, ça c'est une nouvelle intelligence.


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