Totally Unhelpful Pictures of Topaz

Mom and Tracy have never been to Topaz.
I don't know when I'll be able to get out there to take more helpful pictures.
Hotmail is picture retarded.

Here is a totally unhelpful guided tour of Topaz in the frame of reference of a wedding.

Tempted as I am to take you on a tour of confusion, I'll give you the most helpful picture first.  This is the house and the deck.  The angled building to the right of the house is the "outside bathroom".  Up against the hill is the highway.  To the right of the shed is where the driveway goes, it loops up around the house.  Further to the right out of the picture is the garage and way past that up the highway is the Lodge.  To the left of the house you can see a couple trailers.  Obviously, the deck faces the water.  That tree actually comes through the center of the deck floor.

This is the dock and the garage.  The house is to the left, Lodge up the highway to the right.

Here's the deck.  It is light green now, but Elaine wants to repaint it before the wedding.  There is a dead deer leg that has been hanging in the tree for several years now that will just have to be part of the decorations.

Somewhere to the left of Ant's eyeballs, maybe about where the window is, is where the Lodge is situated.  If you understood what I meant by that, you deserve a cookie.  If you look down by the water, where the shade abruptly ends is actually a rocky drop.  Just to the left of that is where you drive boats down to the water and to the right of that tree is where I envision the ceremony.

Here's where the boats come in.  Squint and see the garage at the top center and that rocky drop on the left.  This is so unhelpful.

This is the level ground where I want the ceremony.  This is not the boat slip but the flat ground just above it- the most flat ground at Topaz.

From the deck.  With a panoramic view, the property looks much bigger.

More from the deck, just looking around.  If you walk onto the deck, I'm in the back corner.  My side of the deck faces the highway.

To my left, Ray is sitting with his back to the garage.  My invisible ceremony is taking place behind him.

Same spot, now with Carol facing away from the dock.

There used to be a lot of open space down there behind Elaine, but now there are a couple trailers lined up.  She wants them moved for the wedding, Mike says Ron's trailer will fall apart if moved, so I don't know if they will be there or not.

Now you can see the dead tree that has been removed.  To the right, out of view, is another porch behind that tree.

This completes the 360 degree view, with the tree in the center of the deck.

During the winter, the lake goes down quite a bit.  If you look at the picture with Carol, or the one from the jetski, the water is up about as high as it gets.  That was late August, I think.  With this picture or the two of Ant, you can see how low it gets.

Questions?  Comments?