Burrillville sits in Rhode Island's northwest corner, where stone walls run off into second-growth woods and the Clear River threads past the old mill villages of Harrisville and Pascoag — high enough ground that winter arrives here days before it reaches the bay. Expert Landscaping Inc. works that terrain, mowing through the long green stretch of the year and holding a clean line where lawn gives way to ledge, gravel, and treeline. When the weather turns, the same trucks turn to plowing: driveways opened before the buses climb the hills, dooryards pushed back wide, surfaces cleared down to something a person can walk across without thinking about it. There is a plain, physical satisfaction in both — a yard that lies even under September light, and a driveway that in the morning looks like a driveway again.