Hartford grows in rows: blueberry fields, vineyard wire, and orchard blocks running out toward the Paw Paw River, all of it kept honest by lake air drifting in from the west. Willie Nearn Jr. Complete Tree Service takes care of the trees that aren't in rows — the yard maple by the porch, the big silver maple over the barn roof, the volunteer box elder crowding a fenceline. Pruning here is a late-winter job, done while the wood is bare and the shape of a crown is plain to read, and trimming keeps limbs off the wires and the machine shed. When a summer squall rakes through and drops half a tree across the drive, they clear the wood out and sweep the lane behind them. By picking season the yard is open again, and the shade sits where a person actually wants to stand.