Toward Granville the land lifts fast, and the yards on Southwick's western hills sit the better part of a season apart from the ones down on the flats. Walkers Landscape Designs works both — mowing, trimming and edging through the growing months, cleanups in spring, and leaf removal when the slopes turn and unload all at once. Higher ground means earlier frost and a longer plowing calendar, so the driveways, walkways and lots up there get opened, shoveled and salted well before the center of town needs anything. Steep drives ask for judgment about where snow is stacked and where the melt will run afterward. A pitch handled right in the first hard freeze still drains clean come March.