Snow lies differently on Watsessing Park than it does on the streets around it, one long white field beside the Third River while the driveways nearby wait to be dug out. Gaccione Landscaping is out in those first hours plowing and shoveling, cutting walks open and salting the steps before the block wakes up. Essex County packs its houses close, which makes every drive a matter of inches and every pile a decision about where it can go. In the growing months the work turns green with mowing, trimming, edging and the cleanups that come with spring and fall. Small properties, done carefully, is the trade here.