The Ware River runs cold through the west side of Hubbardston, and when a storm swings down off Wachusett this stretch of Worcester County takes the whole of it. Mike's Landscaping & Snow Removal LLC is out in the dark of those mornings, plowing drives open and shoveling a path to the door before anybody has to go looking for their car keys. In the warm half of the year the work turns to mowing, trimming and edging, hauling off what spring and fall leave behind, and setting mulch into the beds. There is a plain pride in both halves — a lawn cut in even lines, and a driveway running black and clear while it is still snowing. Different seasons, one standard.