North of town the valley opens along the highway toward the pass, and the wind out there rearranges snow all night without asking anyone. A2Z Property Services LLC works that stretch around the calendar — plowing and shoveling through the white months, then mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups through the green ones. Properties this high need somebody thinking about the whole year, because the ground here spends more of it frozen than not. Clearing a drive at dusk with the peaks going pink, or finishing a lawn in the long light of a July evening, is the same trade wearing different gloves. The measure is simple: the place looks looked-after.