Winter arrives in the Mohawk Valley sideways, coming up the corridor overnight and leaving the drives buried by five in the morning. J&R Property Maintenance is out in it — plowing, opening driveways wide, and clearing walkways so the first person out the door has a path to the car. Then the ground lets go, and the same properties want mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups, and the year turns over on its axis. The reward in either half is identical: a finished surface, clean-edged, exactly where it belongs. Properties are served across German Flatts, Ilion, Mohawk, Herkimer and the surrounding valley towns.