Late November along Mulpus Brook: the leaves are down, the light quits by four, and Lunenburg starts checking the forecast out of pure habit. Elm Tree Services meets both ends of that turn — last cleanups, mowing wound down, brush hauled off, and then plowing, shoveling and de-icing once the first storm comes up the Route 2A corridor. Winter here does not announce itself politely; it arrives overnight and expects the driveway to be open anyway. Getting there first, before the alarm clocks go off, is most of the satisfaction in it. When April finally comes the plows come off and the mowers go back on.