Clinton's Main Street runs uphill from the water, and on a June evening the sun lays a long gold stripe down it before slipping behind the limestone hills. Regency Landscape keeps the yards along those blocks and the roads that climb out toward Route 31 — mowing on a steady weekly rhythm, trimming close along fences and stone, blowing the clippings off the walks before the truck pulls away. Winter turns the same route inside out: blade down, salt spread thin and even, the drive open and the path safe before the first cup of coffee. A yard that looks tended changes the whole face of a street, and that is the reward that pays for the early hours. Mowing and trimming all season, cleanups at both ends of the year, plowing and de-icing when the hills go white.