Today they are constructing and attaching the staircase from the back deck down to the yard level.
These steps will be stained the same color as the log siding;
the deck will remain the color that it presently is.

Looks steep, but really isn't bad, just the angle of the photograph.

From the bottom step looking back up towards the dining room windows. Couldn't take a better picture because the ground was so muddy below.