Let's take a stroll around the 'ol homestead and I'll show you what I've been up to this fall.  I take a lot of test photos around the house and this way you can get a better idea at the overall scene and a general orientation fix.

All photos below were taken with the Sony A100 and Sony 11-18mm super wide angle lens.

All captions are below the pictures.

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This is the real curb view.  The neighbor's houses are above and below, see the roof of the house to the right.  My house is what's called a "terraced" home, built into the side of a hill.  The above drawing suggests enjoying outside patio pleasure, that's nice, you can sit outside about 5 months out of the year, the other 7 months plan on being incinerated whilst enjoying the outdoors.

The next view is along the sidewalk going towards the front entryway.  The Mesquite tree overhead keeps the sun at bay during the hellish-like summers.  This portion of the sidewalk, directly below, and extending all the way to the driveway I jack-hammered and re-poured.  I just like wrecking stuff.

Here's the scene after you walk through the arch.  To the distant right are the Rincon mountains, not seen.  Directly ahead, the Santa Catalina mountains and to the close left, the front door and garage door, not seen.

This is the main entryway.  The house door is to the right, the garage door to the left.  Smack dab in the middle is the spare bedroom where this site is produced.  Sharp-eyed visitors will recognize the wall in the center, where I take most of my distortion shots for lens reviews.

Here's a better shot.  If you look carefully, you can see the location where I take some center sharpness shots, such as the roof tiles from the houses stacked off to the right going uphill.  I also jack-hammered a large concrete patio area that was located in the right-side portion of this view, (and really pissed-off the neighbors doing it) then hauled it off and finished it with gravel, typical Arizona landscaping.

This is a full frontal of the main house.  The side door leads to the kitchen and dining area.  Notice the harsh red-fringing on the left and right sides of the house wall from the Sony 11-18mm lens.  I had it wide open at F/4.5 and 11mm for most of the shots.

The north patio, which gets used the most, though you wouldn't know it from these sterilized shots.  On the left, sliders to the living room, the right to the master bedroom.  The door to the right is a small outside storage room.

Next is a different view of the north patio, looking east.  Notice the very small lot size.  The cover on the ground to the left is for the drip irrigation system.

The last picture shows the lot from the corner seen in the last shot.  Whoops, I forgot to hide the step ladder. 

That's it for the tour, if you're interested, the sidewalks are stained with Sherwin-Williams H&C "Moroccan clay tile" color.  The house is "Toga" from Dunn-Edwards.