When the Cartecay runs clear and the dogwoods come out white along its banks, Gilmer County is about as pretty as ground gets. Chanax tree service and hardscape LLC works the hollows and river bends around Ellijay, where a rhododendron slope can hide a spent poplar until the day it leans. The work runs to removal on tricky mountain lots, trimming that gives a cabin back its view and its roofline, and pruning that sets a young tree up for decades. Spring storms come up the valley hard, and the cleanup afterward — trunk cut down, brush pulled out, ground left even — turns a wrecked yard back into a yard. Nothing quite matches standing at the end of a job and hearing only the river.