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Off-Kilter Climb, originally uploaded by aswiebe.

In the center of the first floor of an otherwise normal office building in St. Paul, there is a very small cobblestone courtyard with a couple of old-fashioned streetlamps, a wrought-iron bench that sits beneath the red-and-white-striped awning of the deli next to the courtyard, and this view of the skylight above a seven-story spiral staircase.