Forest Lake goes glass-flat on an August evening, and Harper's Landscaping & Mowing is usually finishing the day's last yard somewhere near it — mower loaded, edges crisp, clippings blown off the walk. Come January the same trucks are out on Route 20 hours before the town stirs, plowing driveways down to pavement and shoveling steps so nobody has to guess where they are. Warm months mean mowing, trimming, edging, mulching and the cleanups that open and close the year. Cold months mean plowing, hand-clearing walks, and sand or salt wherever the grade turns slick. Two kinds of work, one habit: get there early, leave it clean, all across Palmer Town and out to Ludlow and Monson.