West of Hopewell the land tilts down toward the Delaware, and the wind that comes up that valley at night can turn wet snow into something you break loose rather than push. Perone Landscaping Inc runs those hours — plowing drives, shoveling walks and stoops by hand where a blade will not fit, salting the slopes and shaded bends that stay glazed long after everything else has dried. Dawn is the measure of it: a line of open driveways along a road that was solid white at midnight. The rest of the year the same properties get cut, trimmed and edged on a standing schedule, with mulch laid in spring and the leaves carried off in fall. Hopewell Valley in both directions, and the work matched to whichever season is running.