West Georgia rolls in long green waves toward the Alabama line, and Carrollton sits in the middle of it with the Little Tallapoosa slipping past the edge of town. Gomez Grading and Tree Service works those hills — pruning hardwoods along the older streets, trimming crowns back from rooflines and driveways, removing pines that have run out of room on a sloped lot. Working on a grade means every drop is planned twice, so the tree comes down in stages and the lawn below stays whole. Spring storms cross Carroll County in a hurry, and the cleanup after is the same each time: limbs bucked, brush loaded out, the lawn left without a rut in it. The compliment worth having is a neighbor who can't figure out which tree came out.