Vernon Center keeps its green and its white church at the crossroads, and west of it the land tips up toward the ridge that catches the last of the afternoon. McKinney Landscaping Services LLC works these streets in both directions of the calendar: the weekly cut, the edged walk, the trimmed line along a stone wall through the warm stretch. When winter arrives the truck goes out with the plow, the drive is cleared down to pavement, the walk is shoveled and the ice is salted. Beds are mulched in spring and cleared of leaves in November. What the work is really for is that first look out the window — the yard, done, with nothing left for you to think about.