Winter comes into Bethel by way of the brook valleys, and Gilead Brook Road can be plain wet pavement at the bottom and four inches deep by the last dooryard. Townsend Tree Service, LLC works both halves of the year here: plowing and clearing driveways and lots when it piles up, then mowing, trimming and cleanups once the ground firms and the grass takes off. The satisfaction is different in each — a drive opened before the school bus comes, and later a lawn cut level in the July heat. Shoveling and sanding fill the icy margins of the cold months, when a thaw and a hard freeze together can make a driveway meaner than any storm. Same town, same roads, twelve months of them.