There's a week in Canton when the Farmington River runs cold under the Collinsville bridge and the maples let go of their color all at once, and the work turns right along with it — from the last clean pass of the mower to the first honest read of a driveway before snow. Valley's Lawn and Landscape works both halves of that year in this valley: lawn maintenance, mulch and topsoil while the ground is green and giving, landscape design and the patient masonry of walkways, patios and walls, driveway sealing in the warm stretch, then plowing and snow removal when Route 44 goes white before dawn. There's a real satisfaction in the finished thing — a bed edged dark against the grass, fieldstone set so it looks like it was always there, a lot opened wide while the hills are still blue with early light. They work residential and commercial properties across Avon, Canton, Simsbury, Farmington and the surrounding towns. A yard should hold its season, and this is how it gets held: one pass, one edge, one storm at a time.