Clearing the Land

Our land was cleared today. John, our builder, had the crew come out this morning and rip out the trees and grade it. It's very exciting to see progress being made. It feels like such a long time coming, but there's a lot left to do.
The door to the garage will be right about where the grass ends in the foreground of the first picture. The house will stretch almost back to where the trees are behind the people.
The second two pictures are a great action sequence of a pine coming down.
I hope to be able to report on more progress very soon.