Dresden lies along the tidal Eastern River where it bends toward the Kennebec, a town of hayfields and hardwood stands and gravel lanes threaded between the water and the woods. Four Seasons Property Service tends this ground the way it asks to be tended — running mowers over the long green stretch of a Maine summer until the lawns lie down in a clean, even nap, then trading the deck for the blade when the first hard frost silvers the marsh grass. There is a plain, honest pleasure in a driveway opened to bare pavement while the river is still dark, in a yard kept trim right up to the tree line. Out here the year swings wide between planting and freeze, and the work keeps pace with it, holding the yards and back roads of this quiet river town in good order.