D&J's Complete Tree Service Inc

About D&J's Complete Tree Service Inc

A few miles west of Boone, the Kate Shelley High Bridge carries trains nearly two hundred feet above the Des Moines River valley, and on a cold morning that valley holds its own pocket of fog long after the higher ground around it has cleared. D&J's Complete Tree Service Inc works both the valley streets and the bluffs above them, and the two don't behave the same way in winter — valley-bottom driveways stay shaded and icy while the higher ground dries out under the first real sun of the morning. Clearing a driveway down where the fog sits longest means planning on an extra hour of frost that a property up on the rim simply doesn't hold. The crew works valley to bluff as the morning warms, following the sun's path up the hillside much the way the old rail line climbs out of the valley on its way west. It's a town shaped by that river cut, and knowing which side of it the light reaches first is most of the job before nine o'clock.