Spring around Quitman comes in white — dogwood lit under the pines, fog burning off the lake roads by mid-morning. J&S Tree Services is out early in it, pruning winter's deadwood from the crowns and trimming limbs back off roofs and gutters. When a pine cracks in a night storm and lays itself across a Wood County drive, they remove what is left and clear the ground down to bare grass. Nothing dramatic about it — only the difference between a yard you avoid and a yard you use. By the time the dogwood blossoms drop, the trees around the house are shaped for the summer ahead.