The ground under Bloomingdale is Highlands ground — thin soil over old rock, boulders the glaciers dropped here and never came back for. E-Scape Lawn Service knows the borough's yards by their stones, mowing around what cannot be moved and trimming close where a blade will never reach. April arrives in a rush, the thaw running downhill toward the Pequannock, and the first cut of the year feels like the town exhaling. In January the work turns to plowing: drives cut open, walkways cleared, the snow pushed to where it won't slide back by afternoon. Both jobs are really the same job — keeping a piece of rocky country livable.