Morning comes late to the Blackstone valley in winter — the light takes its time climbing over Diamond Hill's ledges, and by then Garduno Landscaping LLC has already been out in the dark, pushing snow back from Cumberland's mill-village driveways and its old stone-walled lanes. Walks get scraped down and treated until a doorstep is simply a doorstep again, before the first commuter turns a key. Then April loosens the ground, the valley goes that particular soft green, and the same work turns to mowers and trimmers, a clean edge cut along the pavement, mulch laid dark and even around the beds. Spring and fall cleanups carry off whatever the maples decide to let go. It is plain, physical work, and it leaves a plain, satisfying mark on a place: a yard that looks tended, a driveway that looks handled.