On summer mornings the fog lifts off the Delaware and lies in the low fields of Mount Bethel until the sun finally clears the Kittatinny. JRB Lawn Care & Landscaping is usually out in it, mowing while the air is still cool, running trim lines along stone walls and fence posts, and cleaning the edges where a lawn hands off to gravel or hayfield. Come winter the same river valley funnels weather straight down onto these roads, and the work becomes plowing driveways, opening the turnaround, and salting the steep spots that ice up in the shade of the ridge. Properties out here are open and wind-swept, which means a storm gets a second look before the job is called done. Green season or white, the aim is the same: a place that looks tended and works for the people living on it.