Late in October the light comes sideways over Skene Mountain and turns every Whitehall lawn the color of a struck match. Family Tree Firewood spends those short afternoons on leaf work, raking out fence corners, clearing beds and hauling the drifts of maple off the grass before the first hard frost welds them down. Through the green months it is mowing and trimming on a steady rotation, the kind of upkeep that lets a yard under the mountain look tended without looking fussy. The payoff is a bare, brushed lawn at dusk with the ridge going blue above it. Come the thaw, the work starts over at the bottom of the hill and walks its way back up.