In December the wind comes off the Watchung ridge above Green Brook and pours down onto the flats, and Middlesex gets cold in a hurry after dark. Randy's Pro Landscaping & Tree Service is out in it — plowing drives, shoveling steps, spreading salt on the sloped aprons where the ice sets first. In the warm half of the year the same trucks run lawn mowing, edging, trimming and cleanups across the borough. Winter here is not gentle and summer is not shy, and the work simply changes shape to meet whichever one is happening. What stays constant is a property you can walk across without thinking about it.