Before the sun clears the ridgelines, fog pools along the Chestatee and every hardwood in Lumpkin County stands half-hidden. Alex's Tree Service, LLC works those north Georgia slopes, where one water oak leaning over a gravel drive can decide how a whole family's morning goes. Tree removal on the steep lots, trimming that gives a roofline its clearance back, pruning shaped to the way a tree actually wants to grow — that is the daily work. When a mountain thunderstorm comes down the valley and leaves timber across the lane, storm damage cleanup means the drive open again and the ground underneath raked down to grass. The reward is the moment the fog burns off and sunlight lands somewhere it has not reached in years.