The Mystery Of The Tiny Door In A Tree

[AsahinaKimi]

[Hyper_Eye]

1. Love it! n/t

[PolitFreak]

2. OH MY GAWWWWD IT'S THE DOORWAY TO HELL!!!

[AsahinaKimi]

3. pssst...

no...no....that's the "HIGHWAY TO HELL" ...wrong song.

see?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. When we first moved in to our wooded property,a carpenter friend of ours said he'd like to make

such a door for a similar opening at the bottom of one of our trees. He never got around to it, but it must be a common inspiration.

Here is a cool incarnation of the concept at Winterthur Estate and Gardens in Delaware:

[AsahinaKimi]

5. we have one of these in Northern California...

[suzanner]

6. There has been such a door in a Minneapolis' Lake Harriet tree for decades, BTW

And, at least in the past, if you leave the elf a note with the child's name on, there will be a reply in about a week in tiny 'writing' on a tiny slip of paper.