South of Oneida the land tilts into farm country, hedgerows running between the fields toward Munnsville, and every one of those hedgerows is a line of ash and cherry that will eventually lean toward somebody's roof. Karst Tree Service works out there and in town both — pruning young shade trees on the streets around Sherrill, tree trimming to lift limbs off service wires and porch corners, tree removal when a trunk has gone hollow and is pointed the wrong way. Storms build over the lake plain through a hot afternoon and arrive with everything at once, so storm damage cleanup usually starts the next morning at first light. There is real satisfaction in a crown opened just enough that the wind passes through it instead of shoving against it. That is the shape of the work here: quiet before the weather, useful after it.