Whately sits between two kinds of country: the flat dark river ground along the Connecticut where the fields run out to the horizon, and the wooded hills climbing west toward Conway and Williamsburg. Beyond Landscape Contracting works both — mowing, trimming, edging and seasonal cleanups on the valley lawns and the hill properties alike, then plowing and salting once winter comes down the valley in earnest. Storms arrive here from the west with high ground to cross first, which usually means a few extra inches on the upper roads. Long driveways off Chestnut Plain Road get opened before the buses run. Warm month or cold, the aim holds: an even cut, a clear lane, a place that plainly looks tended.