The east-facing side of North Plainfield gets the sun before anywhere else in town; light comes up over the flats and finds the hillside yards first. New Sunrise Lawn Care LLC works into it — mowing, edging, trimming, cleanups in spring and fall, the steady week-to-week that keeps a lawn from ever looking forgotten. When the year turns, the trucks turn with it: plowing driveways, clearing walkways and front steps, salting where a slope would otherwise ice over by evening. Mower blade or plow blade, the shape of the day is the same one, and it starts early. So does the result — somebody opens their door and the ground is ready for them.