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Grab the kids and head for the Huntsville Botanical Garden.  Not only are the butterflies flitting about, but there are eight creative treehouses positioned throughout the Garden for everyone to climb on, explore and try-out.  Now through October 31st, you can be a kid again, if you dare, and inspect these little masterpieces.

"To Infinity and Beyond"

This futuristic treehouse (far left, second row) was designed by Carol Lambdin, landscape architect, and Robert Lambdin, Thomas Lambdin, Dewit Burns and Melissa Beasley.  This spaceship seems right a home in Space City, USA.  It is built upon a tree stump with satellite dishes and concentric circles of pepper plants in a pepper garden.  The design for the out-of-this-world spaceship was originally inspired by Lambdin's backyard by two creative children who wanted to find a way to play with an unused satellite dish.  The Botanical Garden's version is ready to blast off, using a countdown system that launches a spraying mist around the spaceship.  Legend had it that the spaceship removes trees and transports them "to infinity and beyond."

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