Dalton lies along the young Housatonic, mill steam rising white on a cold morning and the Berkshire hills close on both sides. Laddie Dean Lawn Care plows through those winters — driveways opened, walks and steps shoveled, sand laid where the shaded stretches turn slick before the first shift heads out. When the river runs high and brown with meltwater, the work swings over to mowing, trimming, edging, and the spring cleanup that gets a yard breathing again. Summer here is short and generous, and a lawn cut on schedule holds its green right through it. The leaf round comes off in the fall, and then the plow goes back on the truck.