Summer in Moultrie arrives as heat by ten and thunder by four, and the pines out past the county line stand still through both. Quality Tree Experts keeps the shade around Colquitt County houses honest — thinning a crown so wind can move through it, lifting limbs off a roofline, taking out the sweetgum that has been filling the gutters since spring. Pruning gets done with an eye on the next August, when a well-shaped tree earns its keep in the middle of the afternoon. When one of those storms tears a limb loose and lays it across the fence, the crew hauls it away and leaves the grass ready for the mower. There is a plain satisfaction in the last look back — the crown balanced, the debris gone, shade falling where it was meant to fall.