The heater was on high, belting out a stinging warmth that smelled of the little cardboard pine-tree air freshener dangling from the rearview mirror.

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The Picnic room features a sizable picnic table, astroturf, and a paper-mache tree that was fashioned out of an air duct.

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French artist Pascal-Michel Dubois, who is based in Nelson, won the printmaking prize for Meteor III, a digital photo montage 360 degree panorama of a tree which seems to float in the air.

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One tree can release as much as 400 liters of water every day which can cool the air.

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From the air, close to 400 villas fan out into the ocean in the shape of a giant palm tree, much like the Palm in Dubai -- a grandiose development that has been plagued with problems from its inception.

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The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.

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