A January glaze along the Esopus floodplain makes every willow and locust sound like glass, and by morning the limbs are down across the lane. P&J Landscaping and Tree Service LLC works both ends of that weather — tree and limb removal once the ice lets go, plowing and clearing when the storm arrives as snow instead. Warmer months bring the steadier list: mowing, trimming, brush cutting, and holding back the wild edge where a yard meets the creek. Ground this close to water grows fast and floods now and then, which teaches you to read a property before you start cutting. A good day ends with the drive open, the limbs stacked, and a lawn that looks deliberate again.