Shack Cedar Tree

• "Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?" - Lucy Larcom

  1940's - Mrs Mason, the original Mistress of Grandview, and her son pose near small cedar tree and original owner's cottage.

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• Mid 70's photo from neighbor shows cedar tree growing tall to left of original cottage

  "Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history."  - Kim Novak

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• March 1998 - We become the third owners of Grandview. The Cedar tree towers over the original owner's cottage, the future Shack.

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• Summer 1999 - The Chimney has been removed. The cedar tree with just a bit of rust.

  "I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."  - John Muir

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• December 2001 - The future Shack with a temporary facelift and the first water view from the original loft.

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• The cedar continues to lose some of its former beauty...but a spring rainbow beautifies all of Grandview!

  "A tree is an incomprehensible mystery." - Jim Woodring

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• September 18th, 2003 - We watch as all of Grandview goes under the storm surge of Hurricane Isabel. The storm was the costliest disaster in Virginia history & it's girth was the size of the state of Colorado. Isabel further damages the ailing cedar.

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• July 2010 - The evening sun gives the cedar tree beautiful hues where nature no longer provides color.

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• "I looked up your family tree and two dogs were using it." - Rodney Dangerfield

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• Mrs. Scanlan, the third Mistress of Grandview, and her sons pose next to the cedar tree as we say "goodbye"

  "Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has it's own  strange and graceful legend attached to it."

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• "A tree is known by it's fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." - Saint Basil

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• "I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap." - Fre Allen

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• "If your look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully." - Mathew Fox

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• Going...

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• Going...

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• Going...

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• Gone!

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• "Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of the boughs shall be?" - Lucy Larcom

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• Our coffee & end tables were hand-crafted from the wonderful cedar tree that delighted residents & guests of Grandview for decades. Every time we see these pieces, we enjoy our fond memories of another piece of Grandview history.

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• As we said goodbye to the ailing cedar & prepared for the Shack, we planted out new entranceway with willow oaks & wax myrtles.

  "If a tree dies, plant another in it's place." - Carolus Linaeus

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• "In Towering splendor once I stood, A regal monarch of the wood, My branches once reached to the sky. See me now but do not cry. And when at last I fall to the Earth, The life I leave will inspire new birth" - S. Edward Palmer, Spirit Tree

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