Mist stands on the Cooper River most winter mornings, unhurried and waist-deep over the water, long before the first rowing shell cuts a line through it. A & L Affordable Landscaping is awake ahead of that light, running plows and spreaders across Cherry Hill driveways so the first car out doesn't have to fight for it. There is a real satisfaction in a bare apron of blacktop at five in the morning, steam lifting off the salt, the walk squared off neatly at the curb. By April those same routes are all green noise again, and the work turns to mowing, trimming and cleanup that leaves a yard looking tended from the street. Snow and grass are two halves of one habit here: show up early, finish the whole thing, leave the line clean.