Parish stands on the rise where the Tug Hill snowbelt begins, and everyone here plans around what the sky will hand them between November and April. ABC Tree Service does the planning half in the green months — tree trimming to lighten crowns that will be holding snow, pruning to take out a weak fork before the weather finds it. When the load finally comes in one afternoon of wet snow or a squall out of the west, storm damage cleanup is the call: driveway first, roofline second, the rest of it before dark. Tree removal here is often an old ash, or a maple carrying a lean it did not have last year. There is a plain pleasure in standing back afterward with the wood stacked and the yard clear and the house looking ready for another winter.