Beautiful photo and a very interesting story behind it @thekittygirl, and just for general info, I believe that porch is called a Veranda, as our house in Redding has that all the way around it, and the tree in the front is called a cedrus libani, or cedar of lebanon, or a close relative: the cedrus deodara; or and the only other one I could guess that to be would be a blue atlas cedar or cedrus atlantica. ( I know you like these scientific binomials hahaha).
Do they put Christmas lights up at Christmas time? I bet it would really be pretty awesome!