November on the hill roads toward Vails Gate is bare branches and early dark, the last leaves down and the first flurries testing the pavement. Mr Ramos Landscaping Service works both sides of that turn — leaf cleanups, final mows, beds cut back and mulched, hedges trimmed before the cold; then plowing, shoveling and salting once the storms start arriving in earnest. Come spring the mowers go back on the trailer and the weekly rhythm picks up again, edges cut, trimmer along every fence. The pleasure is in a drive opened before dawn and a lawn cut even by afternoon. Newburgh and the towns around it, whatever the sky is doing.