Deal Lake goes still and black in January, and the first plow lights of the morning slide across it before anyone in Asbury Park is awake. ASM Landscaping works that hour — driveways opened, walks cut down to the pavement, a way made to the car door before the coffee is poured. When the lake thaws and the beach blocks turn green again, the same trucks come back with mowers, and the grass gets its weekly cut and a crisp edge along every sidewalk. Salt wind off the Atlantic is hard on a shore lawn, so keeping one handsome here is steady, attentive work. That is the whole job in two seasons: a drive cleared before dawn in winter, a yard that looks cared for all summer.