Winter in Montgomery has less to do with cold than with pine straw: the long brown needles come down in drifts, piling on roofs, smothering beds and tinting whole lawns the color of rust. Dille Landscapes clears that layer away and gives the ground its outline again, cleaning out beds, cutting back what summer let run wild, and keeping grass mowed and edged through the mild months. This is piney-woods country, with the Sam Houston National Forest reaching off to the north and shadows that wheel slowly across a yard from noon to dusk. On a clear, crisp January day the payoff is easy to see: tidy borders, dark soil in the beds, trim turf beneath tall straight trunks. A landscape here only looks effortless because someone keeps showing up for it.