Kirkland rises and falls in long green waves, and from the top of College Hill you can watch the whole Oriskany valley change its mind about the weather. Creative Landscaping Inc. works both halves of that year: the mowing season, when a clean edge along a village walk is the difference between a yard and a lawn, and the plowing season, when that same driveway has to be open before the coffee is poured. There is a particular pride in a lawn that holds its stripes down a sloping Kirkland yard. There is another kind entirely in a bladed drive at six in the morning, the banks cut square and the pavement dark and honest again. Lawn care and snow removal, one town, the whole way around the calendar.