Peru lies between the Adirondack foothills and Lake Champlain, apple country, with Whiteface holding its white into May on the western horizon. Turgeon's Tree Service works the orchard roads and the village lots — pruning shade trees around farmhouses, tree trimming to clear limbs from wires and dooryards, tree removal when a roadside maple has gone hollow low down. Champlain Valley winters glaze everything and then send wind off the mountains behind it, so storm damage cleanup is a known page on the calendar: the drive first, then whatever is left leaning. Sap runs in March and the whole town smells like it. When a job wraps, the wood is cut to length, the dooryard is clear, and the mountains are right where they were.