Upriver from town, where Curzon Mill Road runs out toward the Maudslay pines, the Merrimack goes wide and slow and the ground under the big trees stays soft and shaded well into summer. Chapman Land Services works that end of Newburyport and the streets below it, mowing and trimming through the growing months and clearing snow through the cold ones. Lawns get cut on a rhythm, edges tightened, cleanups timed to when the ground is ready rather than when the calendar says so. Winter means plows on driveways, shovels on walks, and ice control on the slopes that never quite catch the sun. Both halves come down to the same thing — a property that's easy to arrive at and good to look at.