Wednesday Nick and Chaz Departed early to head home to Philadelphia. Jamie Coe and Steve Schnarr cut red cedar lumber for the steps; the sawdust smells great.
In late afternoon Bernard and Henry started to add the uprights on the railing. Since the floor is 26-feet above the ground we want it to be very secure.
As we were working we started to sense what a great platform this will be for viewing wildlife. Our first sightings: a Ruby-throated Hummingbird (the smallest bird in Missouri, only 5 grams), a Great Blue Heron (the largest bird in Missouri) and a colony of honey bees in the very tree we are working in.
Thursday morning Bernard made some final design decisions on the stair system. It was decided that an organic design (few straight lines) was preferable to one with rectangles. The hope is that we can wrap each of the two floors so that they resemble birds nests when viewed from the ground.
Bernard took off mid-morning to head back to Chicago.
-Henry
Thursday, June 22, 2006
