When the carferry sounds its horn out past the breakwater, you can hear it in half the back yards in Ludington, and in most of those yards there is a maple or an ash that has been thinking about the wind. Bogner Tree Services trims and prunes them before that wind decides for everyone, and takes down the ones the dune air has hollowed out. Lake Michigan sends its weather straight up the harbor with no hills to slow it down, so storm damage cleanup here is a normal page of the calendar rather than a surprise. Limbs come out of the drive, the fence line gets cleared, the sawdust gets swept off the walk. Then the light comes back off the water the way it does in Mason County, and the street looks tended.