Birch Meadow in June smells like cut grass and infield dust; the same ground in January is a flat white nobody has crossed yet. Labz Landscaping keeps a year that swings between those two pictures — mowing, trimming, edging, mulch and cleanups in spring and fall, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the ground goes hard. The tricky part in Reading is the shoulder weeks, when leaves and the first flakes turn up inside the same seven days and the truck has to carry both sets of tools. Houses and small commercial lots around Reading, Wakefield, Melrose and Stoneham fill out the route. Either way, the finished edge is where you can tell somebody cared.