The same short driveway that gets mowed around in July is the one that has to be opened in January, and RV Landscaping and Snow Removal sees it both ways. In summer that means mowing, edging, trimming and carrying the clippings off; in winter it means plowing, shoveling the walk and putting salt where the ice likes to set up. The maple over the garage keeps the calendar — full and loud in June, gold all over the alley in October, bare and creaking when the first storm comes in. Holding one property through all of that turns into something like acquaintance; you learn which corner puddles and where the drift always builds. A yard tended the whole way around the year simply looks different from one tended half of it.