Here is the exterior of the master bedroom/family room/kitchen section. (Sorry for the off-kilter photo, it is hard to tell what the camera will do with perspective.)

The bases for the veranda columns make more sense now. The family room will have French doors opening out onto the veranda, as will the master bedroom.

The roof of the veranda will extend out beyond the columns, but the rooms won’t seem gloomy because they will get plenty of bright light through the clerestory windows.

Here is the same section of the house looking from the kitchen end.

This picture shows the guest bedroom, guest bath and back side of the foyer. The tall window is in the guest bedroom, and the little window is over the tub in the guest bathroom.

There is a door in the foyer, opposite the front door, which opens on this side. This caused a lot of confusion at first with Kai, who thought it was the front door. However, a visitor won’t be aware of this door and we will carefully landscape to emphasize the front gate.

And we have a front door at last. The wide opening on the left will be the front door.

There are French doors opening onto the courtyard from the library, but we hope that our front door will be impressive enough to be obvious to anyone visiting for the first time.

Here is the house at twilight. A few minutes after I took this picture, I was talking on the phone to Jim and a huge flock of sparrow flew over in the gloom. There were hundreds of thousands of birds in this flock—it looked like film I have seen of bats leaving a cave—but these were birds.

They circled around and flew up the canyon across the road. The front of the flock was narrow and flew in a spiral. The whole flock followed. Then they disappeared into the twilight fog. What an erie sight!