In spring the Snoqualmie runs high and loud, and the mist off the falls hangs in the cottonwoods until midmorning. Green Nature Tree Service works that river bottom and the streets above it — pruning alders and maples back into shape, trimming the crowded conifers that have taken a valley yard's light. A removal near the water is staged rope by rope so nothing lands where it should not. Wind funnels down this valley in every month of the year, and when it strews limbs across a lawn, storm damage cleanup puts the yard back in order and carries the wood out. What remains looks tended rather than worked on.