Wayland is set at the head of the Cohocton valley with Loon Lake below it, high enough that winter shows up here before it reaches the towns downstream. Palmers Property Maintenance LLC plows through it — drives opened, walks shoveled, salt down on the slick spots — working early, when the valley is still one color and nothing else is moving. Then April turns those hills an improbable green and the same trucks come back with mowers, onto lawns that grow all summer on dairy-country ground. Mowing, trimming, edging, and the long fall haul of leaves before the ground hardens again. One town, both halves of its year, handled.