The Quinebaug fogs up on cold mornings and lays a white ribbon through Central Village, and that river more or less sets the calendar here. Green months mean mowing, trimming, edging and the cleanups that open and close the season; white months mean driveways plowed before first light, walks shoveled, salt down on the ice that forms in the low ground near the water. Outdoor work in this corner of eastern Connecticut is really a long conversation with weather that never quite repeats itself. What carries across the whole year is the standard — a straight edge, a clear surface, a property that looks tended whichever way the thermometer is pointing. Plainfield is a town of villages, and each one gets its own attention.