Black Dog Tree Service

About Black Dog Tree Service

Getting to Frenchboro means a ferry out of Bass Harbor and a long look back as the mountains of Mount Desert Island shrink into the haze. The island is spruce, granite ledge and salt fog, with a working harbor at its heart and only a handful of year-round homes. Black Dog Tree Service tends lawns on Frenchboro, where every patch of grass is hard-won ground between the rock and the sea wind. Out here the work runs on the boat schedule and the weather, and keeping a yard mowed and trimmed takes a genuine fondness for the place. When the fog burns off Lunt Harbor and sunlight lands on a fresh-cut lawn above the lobster boats, it looks like a postcard nobody had to stage.