In October the snow geese come down onto the fields at Dead Creek by the thousand, and half of Addison stops the truck to watch. Hoffmann Landscaping works this open country the rest of the year — mowing, trimming, edging, mulch and brush work, with spring and fall cleanups across the wide lots of the Champlain Valley. Winter out here has nothing to slow it down; the wind comes off the lake and drifts a driveway shut twice in a night, so plowing, sanding and shoveling are the shape of the season. Getting a long farm lane opened before the school bus comes through is the kind of thing that makes a morning. Flat land, big sky, honest work.