John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday, in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He encourages us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his post.

The photo below shows a big pine tree — a Deodar cedar to be precise — in our front yard. It’s old and it’s leaning toward our home and it has already dropped some large, dead branches that have fallen off during some heavy winds and came perilously close to falling on our house. Additionally, our front yard is full of pine needles and sap, making it unwelcoming for our dog. So my wife and I decided to take down the old pine tree and eventually replace it with, perhaps, a maple.

The day came for the tree to be removed and I put a chair in our backyard and periodically snapped photos of the progress of the tree removal. This first shot was take. At 10:00 am, just before the crew got to work on the tree.

This second shot was taken about an hour and a half later as they were cutting off the lower branches.

These guys worked fast and by 1:30 in the afternoon all of the branches were removed and the top of the trunk was already down.

And by 2:45, the tree was fully removed except for the stump, and it took almost as long to grind down the stump as it did to take down the whole tall tree.

Now my wife and I need to go shopping g for a nice, healthy maple tree to replace that big old pine tree in our front yard.

As usual, the photos used in this post have been resized (shrunk) to make them load more quickly and take up less space in my WordPress media folder.