Staircase

 “My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”                 —Michelangelo

Lady Panacea and Lena Elena are posing on a wonderful old doll-sized staircase I found at the local antique mall. This picture is for the theme “favorite thrifted item” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. Since I don’t have any dolly things from thrift stores, I decided to showcase something that is second-hand. Although I love this staircase, I have trouble finding ways to use it in pictures, because it seems to require something at the top—a door, a porch, or a platform of some kind. In the past, I’ve used my chalkboard as a background and drawn the front of a building for the stairs to connect with, but today I decided to ignore that and just used it the way I wanted to. Random stairway to nowhere in the middle of the park? What’s so weird about that?