Pretty balconies and fire escapes

As you might remember from before, I am a sucker for architectural details. There's always a good chunk of pictures of buildings any time I travel. Obviously this trip to New York was no different!



I've been to NYC a number of times, but I just love these older, ornate buildings. I have a curious obsession with fire escapes especially.



We have them here in Montreal and I just swoon every time. I point them out to whomever I'm with and continuously get excited about them.



Let me tell you something... I have this romantic notion of one day living in a place where I'll have one of those fire escape landings outside my window. I can then crawl out the window to enjoy my morning coffee sitting on the landing, looking around in my dreamily urban, yet friendly neighborhood...

Sound good to you? Ok, then stop reading right here!



See, I still love the idea, but there's a couple of little hiccups in this plan:

A) There's no way I could actually sit on one of those things. They are not solid, but the latticework actually allows you a pretty good view straight down. I can't even use use stairs like that without feeling a little weak around the knee area.

B) I've actually been on one of those fire escape landing thingys. I even crawled out of the window to get to it. You know what? It's riskety as shit! I freaked out before I could sit down and bolted back inside...

Just saying.

Anyhow, even with knowing all of this, I still entertain these romantic ideas.