Frame within a frame

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To sit on a verandah is to sit in a frame.

This verandah has yet another a frame outside it.

Over a period of 50 years the house owner trained the magnolia to grow its branches to embrace the verandah.

Magnolias are obliging this way; you just need plenty of space underfoot to accommodate their roots.

Sitting there, looking out to sea, you feel you are sitting in a frame within a frame.

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