The river the town is named for runs slow and cedar-dark past Winding River Park, and it keeps its own calendar: mowing weather, leaf weather, then the weather that needs a plow. Toms River Landscaping works both halves of that year, trading the mower deck for the blade and back again as the light shifts. Summer means a Silverton back yard cut down to its lines; January means a driveway cleared before the school bus rounds the corner. The pleasure is in continuity — the same lawns, the same lanes, looked after in July and again in January. Two sets of tools, one town, and a standard that doesn't move with the thermometer.