Barre is a city made out of what lies underneath it, and you can read that in the granite curbs, the steps, the walls holding back half the yards in town. Central Vermont Lawn Care LLC keeps those yards in order the length of the year — mowing and trimming through the green months, then plowing, shoveling and sanding once Millstone Hill goes white and the streets narrow between banks. Weather comes down off the ridges fast here, and the Stevens Branch valley funnels it straight through the middle of everything. Being ready for that is most of the job; the rest is caring how it looks when you're finished. A lawn cut even to the stone edge in July, a drive opened before the workday starts in January — same pride, different month.