Coming home with the tree you sawed down and realizing it looked better in the forest. Treegrets may include but are not limited to discovering unsightly holes in tree boughs, buying one of them Balsams, finding that your tree is too big for its designated location, learning your tree was once or still is a home for wildlife.
Our family had an immediate sense of treegret when we stood the Balsam up and all of its needles fell off. While scooping up the pile of needles, Maw found a bird’s nest.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.