East of Hammonton the streams leave the woods running the color of strong tea, dark and unhurried on their way down to the Mullica. The properties along those roads change with the calendar, and V.J.D. Landscaping And Property Maintenance changes with them — mowing and trimming through the green months, cleanups when the leaves let go, plowing and salting once the cold takes hold. Property maintenance is really a promise about attention: the same place, looked after again and again, until it never has a bad week. There is something good about pulling up to a site and finding nothing gone wrong, because nothing was allowed to go wrong. That is the shape of a year here, and it suits the work.