Climb Away With Me

Staircases

Hard

Simple

Confusing

Strange

Complicated

Endearing

Unruly

Beautiful

Charmed

Just like Life ... 

And This Life is Mine.  

Simplicity is the glory of expression. 

~ Walt Whitman

What is simpler than a 

Vertically constructed bridge to the top of there?

Stairs... stairway... staircase... stairwell... 

What will you find

At the top of the stairs? 

In Bisbee, Arizona

In Carlsbad, California

In Ojai, California

And again in Bisbee, Arizona

Whew.... right? 

Fascinating and gorgeous, impractical and necessary, small and large, concrete and carpeted, overgrown and swept, inside and outside, railed and unrailed, creaky and silent...

In Kotor, Montenegro

I love stairs not only because an incomparable number of possibilities await at the top of the stairs, but because they suggest both zeal and repose. 

On a back porch in Arizona

In a church in Barcelona

Or a church in Puerto Rico

Up and down, over and across, around and about... 

Forgotten in Carmel, California 

My great grandparents had stairs like these (albeit a bit taller and wider) and we children used to run to the top and slide all the way down on our bums. 

Past the grandfather clock, knocking our shoes along the rails, and

Squealing all the way down. 

A fascination like this has gotta start somewhere. 

It's like a Stairway to Heaven ... thank you Led Zeppelin!

In Grenada, outside a church

In the Napa Valley, California 

On the Emerald Princess 

And in Amsterdam, Netherlands

I'll find them anywhere and photograph them like crazy.

To me a staircase means endless possibility and I'm enamored!

To the top, To the top, To the top of the stairs with you!

:) Deb