Ashburnham runs uphill in every direction, and the state forest presses in on the back roads with a wall of dark green. Moynihan Landscaping & Property Services takes properties whole and year-round: mowing and trimming and mulch while the ground is soft, plowing and sanding once it is not. Winter here is long and serious, so a driveway gets opened early and kept open, and the walk to the door gets its own attention. Come May the same trucks are back for the cleanup, hauling off whatever the snowbanks left behind. Looking after one place across both halves of the year builds a familiarity with it, where the water runs, where the plow should stop.