In much of Revere you can hear the surf from streets that cannot see it — a low steady sound behind the mower in October, behind the shovel in January. Mike and Sons Landscaping keeps yards through both of those: mowing and trimming while the grass is growing, mulching beds, raking out the leaves when the maples let go, then plowing and shoveling and salting once the pavement turns white. The city's lots are small and everything is seen up close, so the trimming around a fence post matters as much as the open stretch. Every property has a shape to it, and learning that shape is most of the craft. Cut clean in September, cleared clean in February — same yard, same hands.