Here's a series of images taken yesterday on a quick jaunt with my parents up to the lodge site to see the progress. Brad, our builder, has (almost) finished with the log portion of the house - just a few dormer "rafters" left for him to set in place. This last section over the kitchen was the most difficult for him. Although our logs were cut to length and grooved at the mill, almost every joint in the home was hand cut on site - and the roof logs were the most complex because of all the angles involved. The complexity of the design, plus the 6+ feet of snow that has fallen in Chesterfield this winter have not made things easy four our intrepid builders. But, things are looking up - they will be indoors soon, and Spring is right around the corner.

Here you can see Smith's Pyramid in the distance, through the front porch.

My Mom, standing in what will hopefully soon become the front entry into the dining room.

Here's me, standing at the top of the soon to be stairs/loft (!) for "scale" as my Dad the photographer requested.

A view of the loft and future upstairs rooms.

A nice exterior shot of the great room and kitchen side of the house.

A shot from the great room, looking back towards the dining area and future loft upstairs. Only a bit of the ceiling left to be installed. Then, on to the fireplace construction, four more layers of roof, windows, interior walls, kitchen, baths and sanding and staining. Can anyone out there bend time?

A lovely shot of the front porch. There will be a window wall above a central wooden door, which will be flanked by two side lights/windows.