Clean Green Cuts llc works the valley floor at Bennington, Vermont, where the Walloomsac slides past old mill brick and Mount Anthony lays its long shadow down over the afternoon. Warm months are mowing months here — the even pass, the edge cut clean against a walkway, a lawn that reads as cared for from the road before anyone reaches the porch. Then the year turns inside out, and the work becomes plow lights on the valley roads well before dawn, a driveway opened down to its pavement so a truck can get out while the Taconics are still dark blue in the west. It is plain, physical work, and it leaves its mark on a place: a yard that holds its season instead of surrendering to it.