City Tree Service

About City Tree Service

Morning on Fidalgo Island comes in on the fog: Guemes Channel gray, a ferry horn somewhere off Ship Harbor, madrona bark peeling copper along the bluff. City Tree Service works the streets under Cap Sante and out through the neighborhoods toward March Point — a Douglas fir gone one-sided in the salt wind, a cedar hedge grown into a wall, a plum that wants pruning before it breaks under its own fruit. Removals here are often a matter of inches, with a fence on one side and a view on the other, so the tree comes down in pieces and the lawn stays unmarked. When a southeaster piles wood across a driveway, they cut it up and take it away. By the time the fog lifts you would never know the crew had been there, except the yard is open to the water again.