We bought our little spot about 3 years ago. Two+ acres on a bayou that leads out to the Intercoastal canal/West Galveston Bay. The first couple of pictures show what the place looked like when we first got it; I've also included the lot layout. 160' on the water to the north, 240' on the street to the south, and about 436' deep. Later I'll post some interim shots and finally show what it looks like today, staked out and marked for clearing and house pad.

The lot was semi cleared when we got it.  We thought this live oak was especially cool...evidently laid down for quite a while.

This is roughly the east side property line.  You can barely see Denise through the trees.  Three years later there's a metal fence down the line and a house on the two acres to the right.

You can hardly see Denise back by the bayou on the line between the two lots.  She's the white spot just to the right of the streetlight pole, just above the red tape.  I am forbidden from posting any larger pictures of her without written permission!

Two very nice oaks on the back of the property...this is what caught our eye when we were scoping this out.  This was in March 2010, and the north wind had the bayou low...the leaves were just starting to come out on the elm and hackberry trees.

Here's standing on the bank of the bayou looking back towards the street.

Here's the plat for our two lots.  The neighbors on either side of us did the same thing.  The ones on the east completed their house about a year ago, and the ones to the west told us they were going to start building in March.

I'll work on backfilling the development story and get this up to date over the next week or so, then I'll post progress through the construction phase.  I might even keep up the blog after that if I have some readers.