Spring in Indian Lake arrives as noise: the Hudson loud down in the gorge, the Cedar River Flow shedding its ice, water running in every ditch along the road toward Blue Mountain. Elkin Tree Service Inc. gets going as the ground firms up, with tree removal for the spruce and birch the winter finally took the heart out of, cut and carried away from camps that have been shut since October. Tree trimming opens a dooryard back to the sun; pruning shapes the hardwoods along a drive so the plow has room to work next winter. Storm damage cleanup in this country can mean a mile of camp road and a single tree across the only way out, and it gets handled the same day it is found. Then the lake comes up flat and blue again, and the place looks looked-after.