Just north of the city the Oswego River bends around Battle Island, and the flats along it green up early and hold their color late. Otter Creek Lawnscapes works both ends of that long year: mowing, trimming and edging lawns while things are growing, then plowing, shoveling and salting once the river fog turns to frost on the windshields. A property looked after continuously starts to show it — turf that comes back even in spring, a driveway with no ice ridge because someone has been clearing it since the first storm. The satisfaction is in that continuity, the same hands on the same ground in July and in January. Fulton and its neighboring towns are where all of it happens.