Weather comes over the Sourland ridge before it reaches the rest of Hopewell Valley, which gives a plow crew about twenty minutes of warning and no more. Buono Landscaping Inc uses them — out on the township's long gravel and blacktop drives while the snow is still light, plowing, shoveling the walks and steps, salting where shade off the woods keeps ice welded to the pavement. There is a particular pleasure in a driveway opened before the household is awake, banked clean on both sides, the mailbox still standing. The green half of the year is cutting, edging, trimming, mulch and cleanups on the very same properties. Hopewell asks for both, and both get the same early start.