September mornings in Brewster start under a sheet of dew that does not burn off the north-facing slopes until nearly ten. Reuben's Landscaping, Inc waits it out and then works clean: mowing, trimming, edging along drives and borders, hedges taken back to a straight line, and the fall cleanup that pulls leaves out of every bed and corner. There is a moment at the end of a property when the blowers stop and the whole place goes quiet and finished — that is the part worth doing well. Winter shifts the same route to plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks and steps, and sand on the grades that freeze-thaw keeps working over. In the hills of Southeast the seasons do not arrive gently, and the answer is a crew that is already on the calendar.