East of the city the ground drops toward the Sangamon, and Clear Lake keeps a run of bottomland cottonwood and box elder that grows faster than anybody planned for. Double D & Son Tree Experts, LLC handles that hurried wood — trimming crowns back off the house, pruning what still has good form left in it, removing the trunks that split before a roof finds out about them. A September job ends with the chipper cooling and a yard swept flat under the last of the light. When a storm crosses the river bottoms, they are back the next morning to open the lane and free the fence line. Plain, physical work, and a place that looks better for every hour of it.