Western Coventry runs out toward the Connecticut line in gravel roads and second-growth woods. Sterling Lawn & Landscape, Inc. works that country in both directions of the calendar. Warm months bring mowing, trimming, edging, bed maintenance and the cleanups that bookend the season. Cold months bring plowing for driveways and lots, shoveling at the walks, and salt on the ice that forms in the pine shade near the Big River land. The ground out here freezes hard and thaws slowly, and the work bends to match it. A cleared drive before sunrise is a small thing that changes somebody's whole day.