Poland is a village on West Canada Creek, where the water comes down loud out of the southern Adirondack foothills in spring and lies glassy by August. Hometown Tree Service covers the village and the hill farms around it — tree removal when a hardwood over the house has lost its top, tree trimming to get limbs off the driveway before winter, pruning that shapes a young maple for the road it is going to stand beside. Herkimer County snow means it, and after a heavy fall or a hard wind, storm damage cleanup is the first call of the morning: open the drive, drop what is hanging, haul it out. The Trenton Falls country is steep and rocky, and there is genuine satisfaction in setting a big stick down exactly where it was meant to land. The yard afterward is quiet and clear and back to being a yard.