1st days, picking the lot

Hello family and friends!  Rebecca and I are building our first house together in Ester, Alaska, just south of Fairbanks.  These pictures are from 4/26, after most of the snow had finally melted, when we went out and selected our lot.

 More or less standing where the future end of our driveway will be.

Looking over at our lot from the neighboring lot, most of those trees are ours!

About a two weeks later, I rode up to get a look at the lot after everything more or less finished melting to get a better idea of the landscape.  

Lots of willows still in the way, so it was time for Ben (our builder) to get the heavy equipment out and make some room!