I've been spending time for the past three weekends working on refinishing the deck and am finally done. Two weeks ago I pressure washed it. Last weekend I scrubbed it with an anti-fungal cleaner. On Friday I sanded it. And on Saturday morning I stained it. Now just waiting for the stain to cure.
I didn't take an intentional "before" picture, so I dug through my photos to find something that at least shows it a little. The one is from Easter 2022, the other a frame from the video of Corinne's birthday treasure hunt in 2024. You can at least see the wood is quite weathered.
And after applying the second coat of stain:
Getting it close to same color as the door was not my intention. I had intended to keep it a lighter color, but the wood drank up the stain quite readily. So I'm glad I didn't aim for the door color and end up with something much darker.