Steele Brook slips quietly through Waterville, and the streets along it wake early on a Saturday to the sound of mowers. Greg's Lawn Care is one of them — cutting week after week through the growing months, trimming the tight spots, running an edge where the lawn meets the sidewalk, and hauling off the leaves when the season winds down. It is unhurried, repeatable work, and a block where every third yard is cut clean sets the tone for the whole street. Winter simply changes the tool: plow on the truck, shovel for the stairs, driveways opened once the snow stops. Waterville, and Waterbury beyond it, kept trim in both directions.