Kings Beach changes character four times a year, and the streets behind it change right along with it — hot and salt-bleached in July, wind-scoured and glazed in January. Oscar and Sons Landscaping keeps pace at both ends: mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups while the grass is running, then plowing, shoveling and salting once storms come pushing in past Red Rock. Working this close to open water means dealing with sand, wind and salt that no inland yard ever has to consider. The crew plans for all three, and the properties along there hold their shape anyway. A tidy lawn in August, a bare driveway in February — one standard, two kinds of weather.