The work starts as sound — a plow blade finding pavement in the dark, the even pass of a mower, the scrape and set of stone worked by hand until it sits the way it ought to sit. C & B Landscaping keeps the ground of Bedford, Lexington, and Concord in order: landscaping and lawn care, lawn renovations, hardscaping, and snow plowing and removal that opens walkways, driveways, and parking lots down to bare surface. It is good country to work in — the Shawsheen sliding dark behind the treeline, stone walls holding their line through second-growth pine, late light coming long and gold over old orchard ground. A yard out here has to carry every month it is handed: the thaw, the green rush of June, leaves banked against a back step, ice that arrives overnight and has to be gone by morning. What is left when the trucks pull away is the whole point — an edge that holds its shape, a drive clear before the day has properly begun.