North of the city, out past the Lanesborough line, the glacier left a boulder balanced on a ledge, and it has been shrugging off Berkshire winters ever since. K Brown's Property Maintenance takes a similar view of the year: mow, trim and edge while the grass is running, then plow, shovel and salt when the storms start coming through. Properties around Pittsfield routinely ask for both, sometimes inside the same month. The satisfaction is in a place that stays looked-after without anyone having to arrange it twice. Clean lines in July, open pavement in January -- same standard, different tools.