Follow the valley south toward the Thomaston line and Torrington's whole year lays itself out — green flats in July, bare gray by December, everything under white not long after. W&L Lawn Care LLC works that entire stretch: mowing, trimming and edging while things grow, cleanups when they stop, plowing and ice control once storms take charge. Snow this far up the valley tends to arrive wet and heavy, the kind that wants a real truck and a second pass. Grass here wants the opposite — patience, a sharp blade, the same day each week. Torrington, Thomaston, Harwinton and Litchfield, summer and winter both.