Fish By Bowman

Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Few Treehouses to Write Home About

If you know me well at all, you know I'm wild about tree houses, the house in this article Will the Humble ‘HemLoft’ Survive? is absolutely splendorous. Can you build one like it? Do you think? We have some land you know.

But here's the story from the artist's, I mean carpenter's point of view, in his own voice, in fact, on his own site: http://thehemloft.com/the-story/ And it has its beginning in a failed retirement plan - and I mean really failed as in living out of the car utterly failed. So, absolutely read this if you're at all interested orb shaped living spaces suspended in hemlocks above the forest floor.

And through an obsessive/compulsive need to devour everything I could learn about this particular tree house I discovered something truly amazing: http://www.adventure-journal.com/weekend-cabin/ Weekend Cabin, which shares an abundance of get-aways on a page hosted by Adventure Journal, where the writing, the photography and the art reminds me of the old days at Outside Magazine. And look! They're on Facebook, too - I LIKE them - I do - I do.