First light comes into the Souhegan valley in pieces — the ridgelines toward Temple and Lyndeborough, then the mill roofs down in Wilton, then the wet grass. Greeley Farms Excavation & Landscape works out of Temple Road in that country, shaping the ground the glaciers left: patios and hardscape flatwork, retaining and natural stone walls, firepits and outdoor kitchens set by their masons, softscape plantings and xeriscape design, fencing furnished and installed, and the unglamorous underneath of it all — drainage, septic systems, excavation, grading. Their yard keeps organic soils, mulches, aggregates and compost for pickup or delivery, and their wetland work runs to stream and shoreline restoration and erosion control, the kind of care a river asks for. When a storm crosses the Monadnock hills at two in the morning, commercial snow management means contract plowing and sand and salt applications, lots opened wide before the first car turns in. What stays after the trucks pull out is the plain satisfaction of the thing: a wall sitting true, a slope shedding water the way it should, pavement swept back down to black.