A January storm over the Pascack Valley usually starts as something soft and ends as something heavy, and by three in the morning the plows are out. Raymond Brothers Landscaping runs Hillsdale driveways and walks through those nights — pushing back to the pavement, shoveling steps clean, salting where the melt will refreeze before sunrise. Six months later the same properties are all sun and growth, and the work becomes weekly mowing, trimming, edging and bed care through the long August afternoons. Cleanups bookend the year, carting off whatever each season sheds. Whichever half of the calendar it is, the measure holds: you should be able to look out the window and see that somebody came.