Second Nature Outdoor Living and Landscaping

About Second Nature Outdoor Living and Landscaping

New Longview's front porches sit close to the sidewalk in the old-town style the neighborhood was built around, string lights left up well past the holidays and porch steps that need clearing before anyone can get down them safely. Second Nature Outdoor Living and Landscaping works those narrow front walks one house at a time, shovel first, then a hand-spread line of salt along the steps where ice likes to hide. It's slower going than one wide-open lot — block after block of individual walks instead of a single long pass — but the neighborhood was built for people to actually use their front doors, snow or not. Watching a porch light click on and someone step outside without gripping the railing is most of the payoff. By midmorning, the whole street of picket fences and porch rails looks like any other quiet day in that corner of Lee's Summit.