Washington Park's loop road carries drivers through one of the older stands of fir and madrona left on Fidalgo Island, the kind of forest that made this a fishing and mill town worth building in the first place, and Signature Tree Service works those same species all over Anacortes whenever a winter storm asks something of them. Madrona bark peels on its own every year, but a hard freeze or a rare snowfall does something rougher, splitting limbs that grew wide and low reaching for the light between denser firs. The crew clears what comes down and cuts back what's cracked but still hanging, so a driveway near the park or a walkway downtown doesn't have a broken limb waiting on the next wind. Anacortes sits far enough into the islands' rain shadow that snow here is a genuine event, a morning people mention to each other at the ferry line, and the work moves fast to match how quickly a Fidalgo Island thaw usually follows it. Leaving a big madrona standing after a storm, instead of down, carries its own kind of satisfaction, red bark bright against whatever's left of the snow.