Cutting down a tree

James has enough vacation days that he took the whole week off for Thanksgiving. Of course he was hard at work the whole time. He even took time to cut down a tree that had lost some major branches in previous ice storms and was lopsided and "dying."

The close up before James played Paul Bunnion...
Farther back...
Now it's gone...
Farther back again...They do say that having trees in front of windows is bad landscaping. So, we are one step closer to doing it right. (You'll notice that all the other windows do have trees right in front of them... We didn't design it though.)