Lake Taylorville holds the cold late into spring and lays fog across its shoreline lots on November mornings, and the timber crowding those banks grows thick and tall. Noblet Tree Services works the lake roads and the farm places out beyond them — removals where a trunk has split at a crotch, trimming to open a view or clear a roof, pruning that keeps a young tree from repeating an old tree's mistakes. When wind comes hard across the open ground east of town and lays limbs over a lane, the job is simple and physical: open the access, chip the brush, put the ground back the way it was. The good days end with something big brought down safely in a tight spot and nothing bent, broken or left behind. In this county the work does its own talking, in stacked wood and grass you can walk barefoot on.