Water still drops over Spicket Falls in January, black and loud between banks of snow, and that is roughly the hour Alvarez Landscaping starts moving. Winter here means blades down early: driveways opened, walks shoveled to bare pavement, salt laid before anyone rolls out toward Route 213. By April the trucks swap steel for mowers, and the cutting begins — straight bands across a front lawn, edges run clean along the walk, clippings cleared so the yard looks finished rather than merely mown. Methuen is a place of tight lots and proud frontage, where one crisp edge sets the tone for a whole street. That is the standard this outfit works to, snow or grass.