Almont keeps horse pasture and orchard on three sides and a short main street in the middle, with the Belle River gathering itself in those fields before it heads off toward the St. Clair. Sherwood Landscape Construction L.L.C. works both halves of the year here. Warm months that means mowing, edging, trimming, beds mulched and shrubs held in shape; in January it means the blade down at four in the morning, drives opened and walks salted before anyone has to think about it. Lapeer County snow rides in on a northeast wind and drifts across the open ground between woodlots, so the same driveway can want a second pass by noon. Either season the mark of the job is the same: clean lines, and nothing left for anyone else to finish.