Before the Watchung circle starts moving, the borough is nothing but streetlight and falling snow — a good hour to be out working. Gerard's Landscaping is in it then, plowing the ridge-top driveways, shoveling walks down to the pavement, spreading salt where the grade and the cold agree to make trouble. Come the warm months the same trucks carry mowers, and the rhythm turns weekly: cut, trim, edge, a yard that looks squared away from the curb. Spring and fall cleanups mark the turns, hauling off what winter left behind and what the hardwoods drop. Two very different jobs, one steady habit of showing up.