Still Perez Tree Services

About Still Perez Tree Services

The Tuckasegee runs cold and quick past Whittier, and mornings along it start under a fog that hides the far bank until nine. Still Perez Tree Services works those river-bottom yards and the coves above them, removing a dying hemlock from beside a porch, trimming river birch so light gets through to a garden, pruning for how a tree will look in five years rather than today. Mountain weather is generous with wind, and after a rough night the cleanup is straightforward: cut, drag, chip and rake until the yard reads like a yard again. Working here means rope in the trees more often than a bucket on the ground, because the ground is rarely where you want it. By late afternoon the ridge shadow crosses the river, the air cools all at once, and the last of the brush goes on the truck.