The first inbound train comes through Garfield while it is still dark, and the people walking to meet it have to get down their front steps somehow. Pat Landscaping Services keeps those steps, walks and drives passable all winter — shoveling, plowing, putting salt at the bottom of a slope where the ice likes to form overnight. In the warm half of the year the same route runs on mowers instead: cutting, string trimming, and the raking that opens spring and closes fall. The reward is plain and visible from the sidewalk, which is where this town does most of its looking. A yard that is kept says something about the house standing behind it.