Spiral stairs
Posted: July 15, 2009 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, cats, Earth, home, Photography, Summer | Tags: blimp, sky, spiral stairs 14 Comments(063: Looking down the spiral stairs. Photo © 2009 by Robin)
This photo was taken before we finished the stairs. As you can see, we hadn’t yet put the railing on. That was the hard part — bending a circular railing into a half spiral. You’d think it would be fairly simple. Yet we found it to be counter-intuitive. It took a little while but we eventually figured it out.
Here is a photo of the stairs taken last week:
(The finished product.)
The DIRECTV blimp wanted to be in the picture. We’re used to seeing the Goodyear Blimp in this part of the world. I’m not sure what the DIRECTV blimp was doing here. Perhaps Goodyear is renting out any extra space they may have in the dock.
(In the clouds.)
Friends will be arriving on Friday for a weekend visit with us. I’ve been doing the usual cleaning to get ready for their visit. One of the good things about having so much company this summer — besides the company, of course — is that it’s helping me keep my home in order.
Now, if I could just find a way to keep the cats from shedding. Izzy and Bella are driving me crazy with all the cat hairs everywhere. Bella will let me brush her, and even likes to be vacuumed (she’s a weird cat). Izzy, however, doesn’t like being brushed and won’t let me near her with the vacuum (she’s a weird cat, too, but in different ways). I wonder how funny they’d look if I had them shaved.
Nice stairs… 😉
The blimp was at the All-Star game in St. Louis last night.
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Thanks, Ron. 🙂
That explains why the blimp was headed west.
I’m 33 and yet I still get as excited when I see a blimp as I did when I was 8!
Me too, BiblioMom. And hot air balloons. And so much other stuff that I think it’s safe to say I’m easily excited. lol!
Love the almost abstract quality of the first image..your point-of-view. Looks like you got the stairs in place. Nice job!!!
Thank you, Marcie. 🙂
Love this picture. So industrial and manly.
Thanks, Anhinga. “Industrial and manly” describes it well.
luverly
clever capture in the first image
the curves add a nice softness to all the straight lines on the house
Thanks, Kel. 🙂
Oh! I really like the first photo of the spiraling stairs… great perspective! LOL A blimp? I haven’t seen a blimp since, well, back when living in St. Louis nearly 20 years ago. Nice pics. 🙂
Thank you, Anna. 🙂
We see blimps quite frequently, mostly the Goodyear blimp. We live near the Goodyear airship hangar.
I didn’t know DirectTV even had a blimp. I wonder how many companies have one now. I remember always seeing the Goodyear blimp when we lived in Ohio. I think they actually had several at that time—-maybe they’ve sold some of their blimp-ing rights 🙂
Marcia: Goodyear has 3 blimps, one of them based in Akron. This is the first time I’ve seen the DirecTV blimp.