With contributions from Ben Taylor and Garry Armstrong.
Fire escapes on Beacon Hill
Photo: Ben Taylor – Cat on a ladder in the barn
Up the stairs!
Don’t fall!
Up the companionway – Photo: Garry Armstrong
Balcony steps
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Dogs on the steps my favorite
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They go up and down sideways. They are too short-legged and long-bodied to do stairs normally. Very cute little guys 🙂
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I’ve never had a fear of heights, but those stairs, the fire escape? that gives me pause for thought, definitely…..rickety um first thought lol
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Our stairs aren’t rickety, but they are unusually steep — and there are a LOT of steps.
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I noticed that from the pictures. I couldn’t handle them, wouldn’t be able to get up that many for one, and too steep for two. You do well all things considered.
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Seem more steeper every day.
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Hi Garry, I love your post. I like the steps on Serenity’s boat. 😀
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We are assured it is technically a “companionway.” Everyone still calls it “the stairs.”
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Thanks, Cee. These days, it’s easier going up rather than down the stairs. I had a helluva time walking down a few steps while doing an on camera thing recently. You can’t look down as you’re jabbering. harder than it seems.
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Stairways can be so inviting, I’ve take a few photos of stairways that caught my fancy.
Leslie
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I love taking pictures of them, but I’m always sure I’m going to fall into a crumpled heap at the bottom.
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I’ll post my Chromatic Blues. The first set of stairs was in China.
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“Stairway to Paradise” …
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“Stairway to Heaven” I have the music for that. I always felt it was unfinished….
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The cat did it for me, love that photo. Typical cat curiosity
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I loved that one too. There must have easily been a dozen cats and another dozen kittens in that barn! They were everywhere.
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They were hiding all over til I came into the barn. We did a little “Kumbaya” session.
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Favorite fire escape scene: “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” — Audrey Hepburn sitting on fire escape, strumming guitar and singing “Moon River”.
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I think I might get lost on the fire escape! We seldom see them like that here — they’re usually inside cement or brick columns.
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Slmret., I remember fire escapes from my “yoot” when we lived in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. Back in the fabulous 40’s. Yes, Mom warned me NOT to play on the Fire Escape. But……
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The fire escapes must have been a fun place to play — I still think they were like a maze, a good place to get lost!
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Slmret, the fire escapes were wonderful places to play as a kid. Yes, sometimes a maze, sometimes a jungle, sometimes the wild frontier. Great place for youthful fantasies.
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I don’t know what they are using on new buildings. You only see those on building from the 1950s or earlier.
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Love the fire escape. 😊
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Some of them are so rusted and old, you have to wonder if they would even work in the case of fire. But they are there, supposedly “just in case.”
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Love the dogs on the stairs. Those stairs are becoming more of a challenge for some of us.
“Up The Down Staircase” (’63/Columbia) Sandy Dennis.
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Hahaha! I’ve never really trusted them. Always felt like they were gonna just falloff the sides of buildings. 😃
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You may very well be right!
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I sure hope not. A lot don’t look particularly stable though. 😃
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