Mike Bachman and his wife, Shannon (Schellinger) Bachman have a special attachment to the landscaping outside their 13th Street West home in Columbia Falls.

Not only was it put in by Shannon’s late parents, Dan and Faith Schellinger, it was put in by a special person at that: A member of the von Trapp family. The von Trapps, a singing family originally from Austria, are best known for inspiring the classic film “The Sound of Music.”

After the Stephan von Trapp put in the landscape, he gave Faith Schellinger a copy of the family’s songs on a CD.

That was some 45 years ago.

Over the years the landscape has matured into neighborhood icon, featuring age-old rose bushes, cinquefoil and tulips that came from Shannon’s brother, Shawn, who spent a year living in Europe in college and had the b

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