Curtis Corner Road runs quiet at five in the morning, and that is when the work starts. Babcock Landscaping plows driveways and clears walks across South Kingstown while the sky over the Post Road is still the color of an oyster shell, so a family finds pavement instead of a problem on the way out. In the warm half of the year those same routes turn green, and the mowing, trimming and edging follow roads the plow already knows by heart. There is real satisfaction in a lawn cut in straight passes and a border cut clean enough to run a hand along. Cleanups bookend it all — oak leaves hauled off in November, winter grit raked out come April.