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a mother showing her 11-month old son the joys of learning how to walk. one of life's more treasured moments that a kid may never remember as he grows old, but a parent never forgets as life goes on.
This photo is somewhat nostalgic to me. Two decades ago I would take a bus or hitch a ride to Austin, live on the streets, panhandle, sleep in parks, and generally just hang out for a weekend at a time. Austin was so different back then. If Quackenbushes was the center of the world then the steps in front of Ruta Maya were like the steps of the Acropolis. I spent hours on these steps rapping with every madman, poet, sidewalk Socrates, and freak that walked up. These steps feel like a home I can never return to.
Four shots of the steps leading up to Kedleston Hall, where we visited in September. None of them seemed to particularly stand out, but I liked the 4 together :)
The hall was used as a location for the Keira KNightly film 'The Duchess' and had a display of costumes from the film as well as behind-the-scenes info.
1500 sq ft and steps 4 days, Take up and haul off old Carpet, and had a 3/4 in Glue Down wood foyer, we had to Remove 100 sq ft.
Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition, have been restored several times, most recently in 1995. A new renovation commenced on October 8, 2015 and the steps reopened on September 21, 2016.