A narrow outside walkway balances the grand staircase (we didn’t get to go out on the narrow walkway, although one man in our tour group surreptitiously tried the door. It was locked).
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sappy as a tree: celebrating beauty in creation
"I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. . . ." — "Trees," Joyce Kilmer
sappy as a tree: celebrating beauty in creation 
