Fred Holmes Tree Service

About Fred Holmes Tree Service

Goldsborough Creek cuts straight through the middle of Shelton on its way to Oakland Bay, past streets that once ran on mill time before the whistle stopped blowing for good. Fred Holmes Tree Service works the in-town driveways along that creek corridor, where old bigleaf maples planted decades ago still drop heavy limbs onto the gravel below when a wet snow catches them off guard. Clearing a storm-damaged driveway here means working close to a house, close to a fence, close to a creek bank that doesn't forgive a careless cut, so the debris comes off with care before the plow blade ever touches the snow underneath. Once the limbs are cleared, scraping the drive back to bare ground is the easy half of the morning. There's something fitting about doing patient work on a creek that's been running patiently through this town for a hundred years.