The Mississippi runs wide and unhurried past New Boston, and the fog that lifts off it at daybreak settles into every yard on the bluff. A+ Tree & Snow Removal LLC works those yards through the warm months — mowing, trimming, keeping the grass even from the river landing on up the hill — then turns to the plow when the wind comes across the water carrying ice. There's a particular satisfaction in a driveway opened before the barges start moving, dark pavement drawn between white banks. In summer the work is simpler: a clean line along a sidewalk, a lawn cut down toward the Edwards River bottoms, the smell of it hanging in the heat. The crew covers New Boston and the Mercer County towns nearby, whatever the river weather decides to do.