Winter announces itself in Hartford before anybody is awake — a plow working two streets over, the streetlights going orange on new snow along the edge of Keney Park. Arctic Plowing & Lawn Care is out in that hour, moving what fell so a driveway is passable by the time the coffee is on. In the warm half of the calendar the same trucks turn to lawn care, keeping grass cut and tidy through Hartford's long green stretch from May into October. It is plain work at both ends of the year, and the pride in it is plain too: snow moved, grass mowed, a property that stays usable whatever the sky is doing.