Okeechobee sits under more sky than most towns get, the lake to the south behind its long green dike and pasture running out in every other direction. A Better Tree Service LLC works the live oaks and cabbage palms that shade these yards and ranch drives — tree removal when a limb has outgrown the house beneath it, trimming and pruning to keep a crown balanced against wind that crosses forty miles of open water before it reaches town. Summer builds its thunderheads by two in the afternoon and everyone here plans around them. Storm damage cleanup is the other half of the job: down wood hauled out, the cattle gate cleared, the place in order again. An oak given attention early shades three generations of the same porch.