Ossining wakes early in winter — the river platform lights are burning by five, and the hill roads above them have to be passable before anyone sets out. Soto's Landscaping Llc. is out in that dark, plowing driveways along Highland Avenue and the side streets that fall away toward the water, shoveling the walk clear to the door, spreading salt wherever the grade turns glassy. What lingers is the quiet afterward: a clean apron of blacktop, one set of tire tracks across it, and nobody starting the day behind. In the warm months that same attention goes to lawn care — steady mowing, trimming around posts and plantings, edging a drive back to a straight line. It is unhurried work on unhurried streets, from Ossining out to Croton-on-Hudson and Sleepy Hollow.