Up on the high ground above the Connecticut the wind never entirely quits, and yards on that side of town take the weather head-on. Highland Tree Services JRFV works them in both directions — mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups while the ground is soft, plowing, shoveling and salting once it isn't. A driveway falling away down a bluff has to be cleared with some respect for gravity, and a lawn on that same slope needs mower lines that make sense. Either way the measure holds: open, even, finished. Standing at the top of a cleared drive with the river running gray below is a fine way to begin a winter morning.