Snow finds Pascack Brook first, settling into the low ground while the ridge above is still dry pavement. Clemente Landscaping LLC is out in that hour — plowing driveways, clearing walks and front steps, spreading salt where shade keeps the ice past noon. Come April the same trucks trade blades for mowers: cutting, edging, spring cleanups, mulch, hedge work, and the leaves hauled off when the oaks give up in fall. Two halves of one year, both measured the same way — a drive opened to bare blacktop before the coffee cools, a lawn left even from curb to fence. Park Ridge and its neighbors up and down the valley get both halves.