Route 133 through Essex is a slow mile of antique shops and clapboard, and the front yards along it are small, formal, and looked at all day long by passing cars. Ed Chavez Landscaping & Painting keeps them cut and edged — mowing, trimming, and the cleanups that clear a street's worth of maple leaves each fall. In winter that same road holds snow in its shaded pockets and glazes over after dark. Plowing, shoveling entries and salting walks turn a stalled morning back into an ordinary one. Either season, the street should look like somebody is minding it.