Cedar Mountain stands over Newington as a low spine of traprock, and weather coming across it arrives fast — a January squall can whiten the Berlin Turnpike between one traffic light and the next. Stone & Scappes builds for both halves of that: ground that holds, and ground that gets cleared. In the warm months it is paver patios, retaining walls, walkways and steps, outdoor kitchens, fire pits and fireplaces, set on grading and drainage work that sends water where it should go instead of across a lawn. In the cold ones the trucks are out at two in the morning on residential drives and commercial lots, salt down, plow blade throwing the storm off to the shoulder, so that a Hartford County morning starts with an open driveway and nobody has to think about it. They take seasonal contracts and emergency calls alike, from Wethersfield and Rocky Hill out through Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, Glastonbury and Middletown. Stone in summer, salt in winter — one crew, one set of hands on the property all year.