Jeffrey Tavares Jr. Landscaping

About Jeffrey Tavares Jr. Landscaping

There is a week in late October when Tamworth cannot make up its mind — maples still letting go over the Bearcamp, frost already stiffening the dooryards by morning — and that is the week the mower deck goes up and the plow blade comes down. Jeffrey Tavares Jr. Landscaping works both halves of that calendar, keeping lawns cut and tended under the long shadow of Chocorua through the green months, then clearing drives and dooryards once the Sandwich Range goes white and the back roads fall quiet. There is one kind of satisfaction in a stripe mowed straight across a yard that tips toward the river, and another kind entirely in a driveway standing open and dark before the village has stirred. Around Tamworth, Chocorua, South Tamworth and the towns nearby, that is the shape of it: a yard that holds its season, whichever season has hold of it.