the owl and the olive tree

This is beautiful, and very inspiring. Did I tell you about the Best House in the Universe? I got to tour it a couple of weeks ago. It's a houseboat on Lake Union purchased by an artist in 1968 for $550. He's spent the intervening forty years adding on dozens of tiny odd-shaped rooms and secret passageways and extra roofs and little floating islands moored to the side. The house is entirely surrounded by trees and bamboo planted in floating gardens. It definitely belongs in an urban fantasy (as do many of its neighbors.)