By March, Little Bay de Noc goes the color of pewter and the wind comes straight up the ice past Sand Point. Dombrowski Tree Service works Escanaba and the Delta County shore, where spruce and maple carry a winter's worth of weight and then let it go all at once in a thaw. Tree removal, tree trimming, and pruning are how a yard gets through another Upper Peninsula year without losing a roof to a leader that split back in January. Storm damage cleanup follows every big blow off the bay: the cut, the haul, the driveway usable again by dark. There is a particular pleasure in a bare, orderly yard under a low U.P. sky, waiting on a green that comes late and all at once.