The Schroon River takes its time through this town, wide and easy between alder meadows, with the mountains standing back to give it room. Old Schroon Property Services mows and trims those riverside yards in summer and plows the same driveways once winter takes hold for months at a stretch. Grass grows fast and briefly up here; snow arrives slowly and stays. Edging along a gravel drive, clearing a walkway down to the boards — the small details are what people notice. Both halves of the year come down to the same thing: ground that is kept, whatever it happens to be covered in.