January strips the valley down to structure — bare branches, brown lawns, long blue shadows across the older streets toward the Hillsdale line — and you can finally see the bones of every property in Westwood. William Murtaugh Tree Service Westwood reads a yard best in that season and works it through all the others: the first cleanup once the ground softens, mowing and edging right through summer, hedges kept in shape, leaves cleared off the grass in the fall. The valley gives a long growing season and a great deal of shade, and shady lawns ask for patience and a regular hand. The reward is the ordinary sight of a well-kept front yard on a quiet street, which is most of what a neighborhood actually looks like.