When the gulls come inland and settle on the ballfields, everyone in Long Branch knows something is coming off the ocean. Pure Landscaping, LLC watches the same signs — then plows the driveways, clears the walkways and salts the ice before the morning turns dangerous. March at the shore is a coin flip, snow one week and green shoots the next, and both get answered: mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups as soon as the ground firms up. There's real pleasure in the turn, when the shovel goes back in the truck and the mower comes out. The town changes color and the work changes with it.