Norfolk keeps its own weather. Up here in the northwest hills, with Haystack Mountain standing over the village and Route 44 climbing in from both directions, winter arrives early and stays late — which is why plowing is half the year's work at Carlson's Lawn & Landscape LLC. A driveway opened at four in the morning, banks cut back square so the next storm has somewhere to go, is its own kind of gift to a household still asleep. Then the thaw comes off the ridges, the ground softens, and the mowers go back out across yards that green up all at once. Lawn care in a town this high is a compressed, generous season, and the stripes left behind on a Norfolk lawn in July are worth the wait.