Street Market, Kiev, Ukraine, September 10, 2011

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Interesting Photos At the Church Building Today

I took a bunch of photos again today while we were at a meeting at the church building site. Here are some of the ones that I thought were interesting for a variety of reasons.

View of skylight from ground level, though triangle window (for the 'Trinity' part of church's name, of course!).
I would guess that this is called a "builders' tan". View from walk-in basement (what I call the 1st floor) to underside of roof in the open stairwell. View of triangle window from front porch area. Two construction guys working on part of the roof, one cuts the pieces and hands them out to the guy on the ladder who then nails them to the underside of the eaves. Lunch table (?) with all sorts of odds and ends on it. Laying bricks on the back privacy wall and another amazing builder's tan. Also a view of the neighbors grapevine. Welders' masks. Sparks created by cutting metal roofing, fence spikes glowing in background (this is not our fence, but one they are working on for someone else on our building time - grrrr) A variety of useful instruments hanging on one of the support pillars. Looking down from the main floor to the basement in the open stairwell. Note - the stairs are not even. The first set are about 4 inches deeper than the second set. The second set are a couple inches shallower than the third set. The first set is hard on my knees because it is so deep. Actually, they scare me with no rail to hang on to because they are not even (the first step down on the first set is even deeper due to the extra cement they used to even out the platform - very typical for steps here, and very dangerous). I refuse to go up to the 3rd floor because I have no idea how even the steps are and I'm afraid of heights and 3 floors of open nothing. The stairs are not very wide side to side. I'll go up there once there is a railing of some sort. :-(
Mostly I just like the pattern of the way these stairs look.

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