April on the west side of Haverhill is mud and possibility — January's sand still gritting the gutters, the first green showing where the sun sits longest. V&P Landscaping starts there: spring cleanups, mowing once the ground firms up, edging along walks and drives, trimming, mulch worked into the beds, leaf removal when autumn comes back around. The winter list is just as plain — plowing, shoveling, snow blowing, sand and salt over the ice. Work like this gets measured in tidy edges and open driveways, nothing more complicated than that. Haverhill and the towns west of it.