visionary

for a while now i've been meaning to put together pictures about treehouses

but i can't seem to find them - perhaps they'll come to me in a vision,

like this treehouse apparently did...

a canadian
"free-spirit sphere"...

looking very much

like a friendly death-star

images again, courtesy of inhabitat (except for the death star)

something like it, but more like a zeppelin (or coccoon), is available for holiday hire in wye river, on the great ocean road

snuggle in your inner zeppelin

a sublime treehouse,

drawing from ecocubby

not a treehouse,

but an image from the moleskine diary set,

addendum

the other day i listened to a radionational podcast from all in the mind (transcript). it was an interview with richard louv, founder of the children & nature network, author of last child in the woods: saving our children from nature deficit disorder. he was talking about how essential it is for people to interact with nature, be among it and learn from it, and that this should really happen when we're kids. he told a lovely story about growing on the outskirts of town, hopping his back fence and going through the corn fields to the forest, and building tree-houses there

a wonderful interview, because of what he says and how he says it - he has a great earthy voice

also interviewed was deb moore, an early childhood educator, who spoke of children and their "secret places". she says,

There has been research on an innate intrinsic need to be secret. Yes, okay, it's universal that children want to make those secret places and they need to be in their own places, as I was told by one of the children in my research, that only children can make secret places. She was very clear. Actually a number of children said something similar but she was incredibly clear that adults can grow the plants and provide the loose materials, but the children have to make their own secret places.

further addendum, Oct 2010

treehouse hotel in sweden (via inhabitat) lots of pretty pictures

treehotel website