At four in the morning Abington is all blue shadow and streetlight, the pines out toward Ames Nowell holding their load, Island Grove quiet under a lid of ice, and somewhere on the back roads a blade already down. That hour is where S&J Landscape does its work — snow removal across this South Shore town and the ones beside it, driveway by driveway, until a lot that vanished overnight has its edges back. There is a plain satisfaction in a clean pass: pavement dark and wet again, banks squared off, a walkway cut wide enough to carry groceries through. By the time the kitchen lights come on along the old mill streets, the way out is simply there, and the day gets to begin.