Water oaks and magnolias roof the old streets of Americus, and past the last block the pecan groves take over in long, patient rows. JoWi Tree Service works that shade — pruning the big yard trees around the Victorian houses, trimming limbs back off tin and slate, clearing deadwood that nobody notices until it comes down on its own. A removal in Sumter County is often a pecan or an oak that has given all it had; it comes out in careful stages so the flower beds beneath live to see another spring. When a line of storms crosses southwest Georgia, the cleanup is thorough — trunks bucked, brush gone, red clay raked smooth. The aim of all of it is a house that keeps its shade and stops holding its breath.