Mud season on Rice Road is nobody's favorite stretch of the year, but the sugar maples along it make up for a great deal come April. Karalus Landscape Inc. gets Elma properties through that turn — raking the winter out, cleaning the beds, laying mulch, then mowing, trimming and edging straight through the growing months. Autumn is leaves, and there are a remarkable number of them here. Winter puts the same crews behind plows, opening driveways and lots, shoveling walks and treating the ice. The land asks for something different every eight weeks, and the answer is simply to be there for each of them.