Early summer around Lyons means crates stacked at the packing sheds and heat rising off the rail line by nine in the morning. New Life Tree Services works Toombs County's farm lots and town yards, removing trees that have gone past saving, trimming limbs off roofs and outbuildings, and pruning so a young tree grows into a shape that lasts. Storms build fast over this flat country and can drop a pecan limb the size of a truck, so cleanup is a regular part of the season: cut small, carried out, the ground gone over twice. There is something plainly good about giving a place its yard back. Out here the sky is most of the view, and a tended treeline is what frames it.