Penn Yan sits at the head of Keuka Lake, where the outlet turns east toward Seneca and the water keeps the village a few degrees kinder than the hills above it. Brady's Tree Service works the streets and the farm lanes both — pruning hardwoods in fruit country, tree trimming to keep limbs off the porch roofs of the old houses near the water, tree removal once a big silver maple has hollowed out at the base. Wind runs straight up the lake and hits the head of it, so storm damage cleanup here often means a limb down on the shore side of a house while the road side never felt a thing. Bare-branch season is the honest season for shaping a tree, and in Yates County it lasts a good long while. What is left afterward is simple: a clean stem, a cleared yard, and a view of the lake that was there the whole time.