The Shunock runs small and fast through the middle of North Stonington, past the old mill village and out under the road into pasture. A&R Landscaping Family keeps yards along those stone-walled lanes — mowing through the green months, trimming and edging where walls and posts crowd in, cleanups in spring and fall, then plowing and shoveling when the storms track up from the southeast. Snow in this corner of the state comes wet and heavy, and a drive cut wide on the first pass saves the whole week that follows. There is a plain pleasure in a cleared farm drive running out to the road at first light, the walls capped white on both sides.