The river road north toward Old Town and Milford shows the year plainly — green shoulders in July, narrow and white by January. TMC Landscaping & Plowing follows it both directions, mowing, trimming, edging and cleaning up yards through the warm stretch, then plowing, shoveling and sanding once the Penobscot starts making ice along its edges. Most years the switch happens inside a single week, and the trucks are ready before it does. A crisp lawn edge in August and a driveway scraped to bare pavement in February come out of the same habit of finishing what you started. Bangor keeps both sides of that busy.