On the sloping backcountry lanes of North Stamford, where fieldstone walls run beneath bare oaks and long driveways wind toward the door, winter arrives quietly and asks to be moved. C&S Landscaping Services works those pre-dawn hours, when the Sound lies gray and the streets are still hushed under fresh snow, clearing plows down to clean pavement before the first commuters stir. There is a plain satisfaction in a driveway opened to the blacktop, a walk squared off, the banks pushed back and shaped neatly along the curb. As the light comes up over the harbor and the mill-town blocks below, the work stands finished — a place made passable again, ready for the day ahead.