November in South Harwich strips out the color and leaves structure — bare oak, bayberry, the pale scatter of a crushed-shell drive. R & B Landscape Contracting works that honest month hardest: fall cleanups, leaves off the lawn, the final cut taken low, beds cut back so spring has somewhere to begin. Then the snow, and with it plowing, shoveled walks and sand on the steep bit near the road. The summer routine of mowing, trimming and edging is the visible half; this is the half that makes it possible. Either way the finish line is the same — a place that looks looked-after.