Route 9W runs the length of Stony Point between the river and the ridge, and each season hands the town something different to handle. Ryder's Sealcoating takes on both ends of that calendar: plowing and salting driveways, walks and lots when winter narrows the road to two tracks, and mowing, trimming and edging once the grass takes the town back. Winter work is measured in how early a driveway opens; the summer kind in how straight a lawn's borders sit. Different tools, one instinct — get out ahead of it, finish it clean, leave nothing behind for anyone else to deal with. A place looked after all twelve months is easier to look after in every one of them.