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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...

Ha! Andrea, you are way too kind in describing the new president as "unattractive." My word (just one of them) is "despicable." Don't worry, he doesn't hate Italians, only Mexicans and people who didn't vote for him. Also very disrespectful of Jews, women and African-Americans. He will add to the list as he goes along, I am sure. Our government will now be a total embarrassment and horror show!

Anyway...I also worked with people, but in mental health. I know what you mean about needing peace and quiet. Now, I am retired, but it used to take me all weekend to get back to myself, then Monday arrived too soon! Yes, very stressful, sad, exhausting work. Often quite traumatic, but also could be funny. I used to live near the ocean, so it took me a very long time to accept that I live here. Now I finally appreciate the barren, vast landscape, almost monochrome and restful to the eyes. It has a certain grandeur and feels limitless. I know you would enjoy it and feel you are truly in an unfamiliar place.

Still, I'd rather live by the sea - haha!

Hi Diane I also have worked with disabled kids many years ago. So we are colleagues! Reading your words I feel lucky because in more than 25 years of social work I have never felt that Mondays come too soon. I mean, I love my free time, I need it to refill myself and to just live other things. But I also love my job, it perfectly fits to me. Yes, it's heavy but exciting at the same time...

I thing you really would like Corsica. It's a beautiful french island (though inhabitants do not feel fully french): in fact it's a perfect mix between superb transparent sea, beautiful coasts and wild mountains. In Corsica landscapes are just breathtaking and you can change location according with the feelings of the moment...

The strange thing is that my stress was a lot more to do with the upper management people than the clients! And, the mental health system in Oregon was very politicized. (I had worked in California before.)

I know I would like Corsica and have read it's quite different from the French mainland. But, the closest I got to Corsica was Italy. Ooh, how I would love to return to Italy!!! That was my dream-place.

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

Hi, Graham, I know what you mean. These are too far away from the track, though, and angled to face where I think grain trucks drive into (or, out of) the yard. I assumed this is for the purpose of handing something to, or taking something from, the driver. What that could be, I don't know, but the platform is the right height for the truck driver's window.

Or, it's for something I can't even imagine! ;-)

I assumed it had been relocated away from the track after becoming redundant, for safety reasons. Of course I have been known to be wrong.

Lol! Well, if not for tire tracks in a semi-circle around it, I wouldn't have a clue!

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