In Easton, the ground still keeps the shape the mills gave it — granite blocks by the old shovel works, water held quiet behind the dam at Shovel Shop Pond, stone walls running off into the oaks toward Borderland. Cottam's Landscape & Construction tends this southeastern-Massachusetts town of low woods and still ponds, cutting lawns to a clean, even nap and building the beds and stonework that give a property its frame. Before the village streets have thawed, the plows are out in the dark, opening driveways and scraping walks down to bare pavement while snow still clings to the white pines. There is a plain satisfaction in what the work leaves behind — the sharp edge along a summer walk, the drift shoved back before anyone stirs, a yard that keeps its footing whether the ground is soft with April rain or locked hard under January.