Out at the edge of Troy Meadows the red-winged blackbirds come back before anything else does, rasping over the cattails while the ground is still half frozen, and that is the signal the mowing year is about to begin. Berger Landscaping LLC follows the whole arc from there: cleanups, weekly cutting, edging, mulch, and the long slow leaf haul when the marsh maples let go all at once. Then the light gets short, the wind comes across that wet ground with nothing to slow it down, and the same trucks head out with plows on the front. Driveways opened, walks shoveled, salt spread before dawn. Two very different jobs, one town, and the satisfaction is identical — a property that looks handled.