School mornings on Marshall Hill Road tell you everything about a West Milford winter: the buses grind up the grade, and every driveway along it has to be open before they come. Rick Botti Landscaping, Inc. plows, shovels and salts to make that deadline, then trades it in April for mowing, trimming, edging and the cleanups that bring a yard back. Between the two, a year here is mostly about being early — ahead of the storm, ahead of the growth. The good moment is small and repeatable: someone backs out onto a bare drive, or comes home to grass cut in even lines. That steadiness is what all of it is for.