The Little Wabash bends past Clay City, and every April the water comes up in the bottoms until the sycamores stand with their feet wet. Nussmeyer Tree Services LLC works those river-country yards — trimming the fast soft maples, pruning the pecans and oaks that make a farmhouse yard worth sitting in on a July evening. Wind arrives here with nothing in its way and leaves limbs across the lane; they clear that out the same day, cutting until a truck can get through and a walk to the mailbox is a walk again. A tree removal along the river takes a plan for where the weight wants to go, and then the discipline to make it go somewhere else. Afterward the yard opens up and the light comes in where it has not been in years.