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Lol!

Stairs to nowhere – I assume this is an analogy to the current US history ;-]

Yes.

Stairway to heaven..............well, at least part of the way..!!

A nice rusty structure............and I like the shadow it throws.

A very low heaven! Thank you, Keith.

I like that.

Thank you very much!

great symbolic scene!

Ah, yes! Thanks, Berny.

Looking at this picture I start to think about the last person who went on this stair. Who was this guy? Which day? What about him? In this pictures you rarely show people but they though are full of humanity.

All good questions! There rarely ARE people around. I live in a very sparsely populated region. Most of the Western US is like this - between the big cities, there is almost nothing! ; )

Grazie, Andrea!

Mmmmmh, I constantly live a paradox: my job is to work with families, young people, migrants, refugees. I love everything is about human. However I also need to stay where there is... "nothing". It's maybe a way to refill myself to continue my job. So, I think I really would like to stay for a while in your western side which can be rude and rugged but also really welcoming (this my experience of a US trip many years ago) . I mean, I also live in area where mountains are wild , steep and silent. However it's not the same as your, how can I say?, different landscape: sometimes it's useful to change... But I don't think that this is a good moment to get to the US; your new president seems to be unattractive...

Possibly these belong to the railway for, in the past, exchanging safeworking tokens which control sections of single track to ensure that only one train is in the section at one time. The tokens, aka staffs, were exchanged between signaller and driver attached to a cane hoop. This meant a train only had to slow down rather than stop when the next single section was available. The steps would have been mounted close to the track with the platform about half an arm's length clearance to the train.

Not much detail but see here www.ipernity.com/doc/grahamh/24210509/in/album/468989

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