A Few Pics

It is about time I posted a few pictures of the site so here they are!  I also included an image of the site map at the bottom to help orient you.  The lot is located at the top of a private drive that is shared by four other houses.  The northeast corner of the lot is the lowest point and also where our driveway would enter.  From there much of the lot is flat before it slopes up sharply to both the east edge and the south edge making the southeast corner the highest point.

I hope that these pictures and the site map help to give you a sense of what we are starting with.  Over the next year it will change a lot.  I can't wait!

This first picture is taken from the street and shows the entrance to the private drive.  There is a bridge over a small creek and then the drive climbs uphill for about 100 yards to where our lot is.

Here is the entrance to our lot at the top of the private drive.  The brick wall on the right runs along the east edge of the property and will probably have to be cut back a bit to give us a wider entrance.  It currently reminds me of the narrow one-car garage we rented in Pittsburgh where Wendy managed to knock the mirror off our car twice!  (Red Arrow)

This image shows more of the brick wall that separates us from our neighbor to the east.  The wall runs the length of the boundary from where we enter all the way back to the shed.  (Yellow Arrow)

As you can see the lot is quite wooded.  A number of the smaller trees and brush will need to be cleared to make room for the house and to give us some room for a lawn.  (Green Arrow)

This picture is taken from the top of the slope in the northeast corner looking back down towards the brick wall.  The cleared area is where the pool used to be.  You remember, the one that was subsequently buried on our lot!  (Blue Arrow)

This picture is taken from the same high point on the east edge but instead looks down the property line towards the south.  There is a nice big fruit tree here.  (Orange Arrow)

Here is a picture of the "barn".  The structure is 15'x20' and two stories high with a nice poured concrete floor.  I doubt I'll need a sit-down mower but I will need to find something to park in there! (Purple Arrow)

This final picture shows the west edge right above the brick wall looking back towards the barn. (Pink Arrow)

Here is the site map.  The little square near the purple arrow is the shed/barn.  The shaded area is the private drive and the neighbors driveway.