Meshanticut Brook runs through the middle of Cranston with a pond and a stand of woods around it, and the neighborhoods nearby take their weather straight off that low, wet ground. Kingston Hill Landscaping keeps those properties for both halves of the year — mowing, trimming and cleanups while the leaves are on, plowing and de-icing once they are down and cold settles into the hollows. Spring here is mud and matted grass that has to be raked awake; autumn is leaves by the truckload; winter is a phone that rings at midnight. Doing both means knowing a property twice over — where water sits in April, where the drift builds in February, which corner of a driveway a blade can never quite reach without patience. The result reads the same in any month: a place someone clearly looked after.