A well-kept yard pays its people back daily — in the ease of walking out the door, in the way an evening feels longer when the grass is even and the driveway is clear. Wilson's Ground Maintenance works that trade in Hollis, New Hampshire, where orchard rows climb the hills, stone walls run off into the trees, and the light comes late and gold across open farmland. Warm months mean mowing: clean passes, honest lines, a lawn that sits square against the old walls and the apple country beyond it. Cold months mean plowing before the sky lightens, pushing the night's snow back off dooryards and lanes so the first car out finds pavement instead of drift. Two kinds of weather, one habit — leave the ground better arranged than you found it, and let the property carry its season with some dignity.