Harrison sits in a bowl of Ozark hills with Crooked Creek turning its bends just outside of town and color coming down the ridges every October. Alderson and Sons Tree Service works those slopes — removing an oak that has begun to lean toward a Boone County rooftop, trimming the limbs that overhang a narrow hill road, pruning so a tree can carry ice without losing half of itself. Storms up here arrive as ice as often as wind, and the morning after is spent opening driveways that fall away downhill. Every load carried out of a yard is one less thing waiting on the next freeze. Ridge country rewards work done in the right order, and that is how it gets done.