Before the light has cleared Mount Anthony, the trucks are already out, and by the time Bennington's brick blocks turn gold the driveways along the Walloomsac are open — plowed down to pavement, edged clean at the shoulder. D4s / Dwyers 4 Seasons Lawn & Snow Services keeps the valley floor and the hill roads above it, handling mowing and lawn care through the green months and snow removal when the ground goes hard. There is a plain, unhurried pleasure in a yard cut in even rows on a July evening, the shadows running long off the maples, the smell of it holding in the cooling air. Come January the same ground is measured differently: a path to the door, a driveway a person can back out of at six in the morning without giving it a thought. It is work that leaves a visible mark on a place — a yard that holds its season, whichever season it happens to be.