February in Middletown belongs to the early risers. Long before the ramps at the Route 17 interchange fill with commuters, Caceres Landscaping LLC is out plowing driveways and lots, shoveling walks down to bare pavement and spreading salt where the shade would keep ice all day. Come May the same properties turn green and the work turns to mowing, edging and trimming, with cleanups in spring and fall bracketing the growing season. The pleasure is identical in either weather — arriving before anyone needs you, leaving a place ready to be used. A cleared drive at six in the morning is its own kind of welcome.