The Salmon River runs right through Malone and Titus Mountain stands up behind it — a town with the Adirondacks on one shoulder and open farm country on the other. Collins Lawn & Landscape works that ground through a short, generous green season: mowing, trimming, mulch beds, and the cleanups that open a yard in May and close it in October. Then Franklin County winter arrives with everything it has, and the trucks go out plowing driveways, clearing walkways and treating ice at hours nobody else is awake for. Up here an open drive before dawn is not a nicety, it is how the day happens at all. Malone and the towns around it get both halves.