Here're a few shots from Lindsay's camera, to round out the photo record of this job.  I also finally found the pictures I took of the innards of the junction boxes for the outside lighting circuit, so I think I'll be able to bang out that last hookup when I go up later this week.

This was the framing of the lower landing, with the Vycor on the joists.  Most of the job I'd had plywood on this part, as well as temporary stair treads, so that we wouldn't mess up redwood during the full swing of construction.

Muggs wanted me to make sure to show this close-up of the tie-backs that he installed to secure the landing and the lower stairs.

And here's the lower landing with redwood on it; this is store-bought material except for the middle narrow board--it'll be interesting to see how the two weather over the years.

I include this to illustrate how I spent one long evening filling out the screw schedule: I had pinned the boards in with a little over half the screws I'd ultimately need, and one of the last chores is to make everything consistent.  I've evolved a good and fast method for executing this task, where I use a hammer to tap each 3" deck screw into the surface, and then I move around with the driver drill and hit 20 screws in one sequence.

Here's a self-timer shot of the rig I used to set the vertical pickets I had milled from the too-short or too-chewed-up wood I'd rescued.  The process involves a story-pole marked with the pickets and 3 7/8"spaces between them, which I clamp between the posts so that the edge pickets are the same distance from each post.  Then I hold a picket plumb along the mark (that's what I'm doing with the level in my left hand), and pop in long finish-nails at top and bottom.  Then for the other pickets in the row I just use Nevada-shaped spacer blocks, one of which is on the step near my knee.

And here's the finished product!