Graying hippie lives in treehouse in urban Miami neighborhood

[DemocratSinceBirth]

MIAMI -- This graying hippie makes the nightly, winding climb 18 feet to her cozy bedroom. She wakes to roosters' crows and the scents of dewy soil. Over breakfast, her view is a jungle of towering trees, no hint of concrete civilization.

Shawnee Chasser lives in a treehouse above a secret garden in the middle of Miami. For 15 years, she has lived atop the 1.5-acre nirvana of green trees and farm animals behind a row of houses 10 minutes from downtown.

Neighbors come for potlucks, drum circles and weekly volleyball games. Tenants who rent the extra bedrooms hang out in the open kitchen. It is exactly the peaceful paradise Chasser envisioned when her brother and others built the three-story treehouse months before Hurricane Andrew devastated the area in 1992.



http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-809treehouse,0,4904205.story

[porphyrian]

1. Cool, good for her. - n/t

[lynnertic]

2. kick for the tree (and the lady who lives in it)

[polichick]

3. Lucky lady, what a wonderful life...

I grew up in Florida, climbing and playing in Banyan trees ~ I'd love to live in one!