I love all these wonderful stairways.Walking up a couple of flights of stairs gets your heart rate going and so much healthier than catching the lift or elevator.
Pembroke Castle. this steep stone spiral staircase with vertical bannisters is not for the faint hearted.
Life is a series of steps
Things are done gradually
Once in a while there is a giant step
but most of the time we are taking small,
seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
~ Ralph Ransom.
Have a happy week
Hugs
Carolyn
So beautiful ~ I wonder if I could convince my husband that we *need* a new stairway?
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Jo
Hi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteYes, staircases can be so elegant and even regal. I've walked those steps at Pembroke Castle...pretty to look at, but very difficult to navigate, especially for those of us with rather large shoe sizes! ;)
Maureen
Beautiful!! I wish when we had hardwood put on our stairway that we had had the banister painted white and hadn't done the entire step in wood . . . NEXT TIME LOL
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They look so*romantic*
ReplyDeleteto me, imagine walking up to rooms
like in vintage movies {sighs}
beautiful images!
Wishing you a happy week:)
Hi Carolyn......i do one step at the time in my life........beautiful post......lovely new week .....love Ria....
ReplyDeleteHi Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteI love the stairs too. How many things in common?.
Have a wonderful monday,
Great quote Carolyn! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely week!
xxx
On the stairway subject, Carolyn: my mother had the most beautiful collection of glass newel post finials...all colors. My sister has them now and when the light shines in on them, it's like a rainbow!
ReplyDeletestair ways to heaven! love the looks :-)
ReplyDeletexoxo BB
Yes I've walked those steps at Pembroke Castle too! Phew!
ReplyDeleteLovely images and words to match!
Have a great week!
Hugs
XOXO Lola & Nora:)
Lovely staircases....I have always loved the white spindles with a black handrail, so beautiful!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week Carolyn, thank you for always being there for me!!! I love to visit and gaze at all your gorgeous photos!!!
Hugs,
Margaret B
Carolyn, they are surely elegant,
ReplyDeletemade me remember that my grandparents lived in an old house,on first floor, but there was this huge-brown big hall, with the stairway leading up to them- very beautifull.
Love your poem, it is so right...
Hugs, Dorthe
I too love unusual staircases. Just think of the workmanship that went into building them.
ReplyDeleteLove the staircases! It would definitely be a work out~ I love your ballerinas in the previous post. I had a daughter who danced~ Sweet images and memories for me!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week. ~Theresa
Dear Carolyn, this are so great stairways!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful new week´,
Hugs,
Yvonne
So wonderful stairs, the last one was cool.
ReplyDeleteHave a nice week
Hugs
AnnaMaria
Gorgeous post, darling!
ReplyDeleteEspecially loving the second space!
xoxox,
CC
All three were lovely, I like the second one the best...... As beautiful as they all are I am glad I don't have to go up and down them anymore!!!!!!Maryanne ;)
ReplyDeleteCiao carissima amica!
ReplyDeletePassare da te è sempre bellissimo.
Tante novità e iniziative!!!
Un vero piacere!
Ti mando per mail un bacio grande e auguro una splendida settimana!
Con affetto!
Kisses and HUGS! ;o) NI
these stairways are amazing. it makes me want to live in a double storey house! this is my first time visiting your lovely blog, just wanted to say hello :)
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Lovely images today Carolyn --- staircases, i love them too - we have one and I do have that "Gone with the wind" feeling" when I run my hand down the bannister.
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Oooh my goodness, I'm getting vertigo.
ReplyDeleteAren't grand staircases wonderful? Must be the Scarlet O'Hara in all of us.
Just divine. Staircases can be so enchanting! By the way, thank you so much for adding me to your blogroll... such an honor! :) Paris in Pink
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful staircases, Carolyn! Oh how I miss having one. Apartment living just isn't the same :)
ReplyDeleteHope u had a wonderful weekend! xoxo
Carolyn, everytime I see a set of beautiful stairs I remember all the wonderful old black and white movies I've seen. As a child, all the grand staircases made me wish I could race to the top of them.
ReplyDeleteI'll race you to the top okay?!!! (except the rock stairway) that looks like it would hurt))
hugs to you...
Those are grand. But I just say that I like the stone, the handworked look of the last one most of all.
ReplyDeletelove the flight of stairs is like a perpetual silence accompanies them in his way, and give pasitos slowly but meanigful guidance kisses maria
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I can imagine strutting down the steps in a cute dress. Now, if only I had a house big enough :p
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stairways!!! and beautiful thoughts about them.
ReplyDeletemuchos cariños
maria cecilia
I to have such a love of beautiful staircases -- from the rustic to the polished! They say so much about the rest of the building, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteLOVE those stair ways! The castle stairway is like the one here in Chicago/U.S.A. for the old water tower... standing after the Great Chicago Fire.
ReplyDeleteYour quote is magnificent!
xo,
Mary
Adore all three! A lady would make a Grand entrance, especially on the first two!
ReplyDeleteHave a great week Carolyn!
How are you liking your camera????????????
xox
Constance
Beautiful staircases Carolyn. For some reason they have always inspired romance to me....I can imagine walking down the stairs all dressed up and my love standing at the bottom, waiting for me...What can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic :-) Have a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteHugs and Kisses,
♥Ana
Carolyn,
ReplyDeleteSo nice to be able to come by your place and visit.
I think right now i am sitting on a step taking a break from the long walk up to the top of the stairs.
Blessings to you,
d
Lovely is all that you share
ReplyDeleteLife is a series of steps
Things are done gradually
Once in a while there is a giant step
but most of the time we are taking small,
seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
~ Ralph Ransom.
Love your post on stairways! For some reason I've always been fascinated with them. In hotels you'll usually find me using the stairs. *smile* ~Mandy
ReplyDeletewe actually have beautiful circular stairs from our lowest level all the way to our upstairs en suite on the third level...yep, it gets the heart rate going when you want to do them all at once! lOl. beautiful at Christmas too!
ReplyDeleteHi Carolyn, how are you? I hope that you are well. :)
ReplyDeleteI loved that little poem at the end of your post, I've never read that one, before!
That one photo reminds me of the staircase I had to go up, climbing the Basilica Tower in Florence! I had to go up 4 hundred + steps! With tiny, tiny, tiny windows only every few meters! I was getting panicky, it was becoming frightening! But then the view from the very top was breathtaking! :) You ought to try it one day, Carolyn! The Basilica in Florence! :)
C