January in Marshallville is camellia season, when the small grid of Macon County streets puts out color while everything else stands bare. Marshallville Tree Service Pros works that quiet stretch of middle Georgia — pecans and oaks over old houses, orchard edges, fence lines that need opening up. The dormant months are for pruning and trimming, reading a bare crown and taking out what will not serve it; removal comes when a tree's story has ended. When a storm rakes the county, the cleanup runs until the last of it is gone and the lawn lies flat. A small town notices what is kept up, and a well-tended tree is the first thing it sees.