There is a week in Clinton when the last mowing and the first shovel share the same shed — the maples above the Wachusett Dam let go all at once, and the air coming off the reservoir turns thin and sharp. Level 10 Land Works keeps its hands on both sides of that week: lawns cut and tended through the green months on the slopes above the Nashua River, then those same driveways read in the dark once the plowing starts. The satisfaction is a plain, physical one — a yard laid down in even stripes on a mill-town side street, an edge held crisp against the sidewalk, a drive opened clean before anyone inside has found their boots. Lawn care and snow removal, carried by one outfit, so a place in Clinton and the towns nearby looks looked-after whichever way the year is leaning.