Oswego takes its weather straight off Lake Ontario, and the west wind at the harbor mouth has been pruning the trees along these streets on its own rough schedule. Mid State Tree Service does it deliberately instead: tree trimming to reduce what a crown can catch, pruning that builds structure into a young tree before the lake gets a vote. Snow comes by the foot here, and once it settles onto branches already loaded, storm damage cleanup means reaching the split limbs before they let go on their own. Tree removal on the older streets above Fort Ontario is close-quarters work, roped and lowered rather than felled. When the sun finally swings back across the lake in April, a yard that has been kept shows it first.