Wharton still carries the line of the old Morris Canal through it, a green seam of towpath and still water past Hugh Force Park, and the blocks grew up around that line. D'NG, Landscaping LLC keeps the lawns along them — mowing, string trimming, mulch beds cut crisp against the walk, hedges brought back to shape before the Fourth. When the year turns, the same trucks carry plows and shovels for driveways, front steps and salt. There is a pleasure in the first pass of winter, the blade laying open a clean black stripe where a minute ago there was only white. Fall closes it out: leaves off the grass and gone before the ground freezes hard.