First frost usually shows up around Overlook Reservoir before it ever reaches downtown; the north side of Fitchburg runs a few degrees colder and admits it sooner. NXT Landscaping watches for that turn, closing out the season's mowing and trimming and then setting up the plows. Winter here does not ask permission — it comes in on the wind off the reservoir hills and stays a while. Their whole job is making the morning after look ordinary: drive open, walk cleared, salt where it needs to be. Underneath it all a lawn is waiting for April, and they will be there for that too.