By Vladimir Brezina
A fire? Nothing out of the ordinary.
But a fire in a cozy fireplace in a New York apartment, deep inside a high-rise building? We are already beginning to appreciate how extraordinary that is, as winter is surely coming…
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, (Extra)ordinary.
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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Wind Against Current 
I love planned fires. So I love this. The sparks photo was amazing.
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Just playing around with the fire, you know, while trying to avoid any unplanned fires :-)
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Lovely roaring fires. This coming winter is supposedly the strongest one to hit Norway in many, many years so thank you for the warning!
Congratulations to both of you! <3 <3
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Thanks so much, Dina!!
Yes, here in NYC it’s quite chilly already—I think we will definitely need the fire this winter…
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I’m trying to envision carrying wood up and ashes down in a high rise. :-) But, I know it is worth the effort to see those beautiful flames and feel that wonderful heat. We haven’t lit our pellet stove yet. It seems like once we do, winter has arrived, and it doesn’t stop running until April 1st. I’m prolonging the inevitable, I know. :-)
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It’s no harder than carrying a 17-foot kayak up and down ;-)
Fortunately, one of the benefits of living in such a building is that there are fairly well organized delivery and disposal systems…
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Well, you’ve got me there. :-)
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:-)
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Just in time for this cold snap too!
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Exactly—that’s why we fired up the fireplace for the first time!
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Looks so cozy, David. Great captures. :)
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Thanks!!
Not David, though ;-)
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Sorry, Vlad. I’d just been reading David’s post before yours. :oops:
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Not to worry—happens to me all the time! :-)
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Happy to hear that. :D
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Special indeed! Nice fire photos that promise a warm winter.
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We certainly hope so!!
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Amazing photographs! I feel warm already :)
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As did we! Thank you, Tania! :-)
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OMG, you have a fireplace??? Not a DVD of a fireplace?? What a curiosity! Jean & Alex
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Not a DVD of a fireplace, nor yet a fake gas-fired fireplace, but a real wood-burning fireplace :-)
The first two would be easier to operate, of course. As it is, while we have substantial logs of wood, we still have to figure out how to swing that big axe of ours in the apartment without hitting anything other than the wood, or leaving big gouges in the floor…
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Well, it would be worth it. :)
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And if we get desperate during the worst of the winter, we can always use the furniture for firewood… :-)
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Hmmm. Ask Johna first! Hey, when are we eating?? We look forward to a cozy dinner with you in NYC :)
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The other big problem, of course, is learning how to build a fire. It’s been a long time since my Girl Scout days, and camping we almost always use stoves rather than building fires.
Firestarting logs are a nifty new development!
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Extraordinary indeed!
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Thanks!!
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