In late October the Champlain Valley turns to brass, and the maples above Essex Junction's Five Corners let their gold down onto lawns that di Stefano Landscaping has kept in hand since the first cut of spring. This is a landscape company as comfortable in stone as in green — landscape design and installation, patios and living spaces, walkway pavers, driveways and entries, retaining walls and stone masonry, planting design and irrigation — with full-service maintenance, garden care, weekly property visits, and spring cleanups holding the year together. When storms come down off the Green Mountains and cross the Winooski, the crews turn to commercial snow and ice management, working in the dark to open lots and entries while the village sleeps. The pleasure of it is physical and plain: a wall that sits true through the frost heave, a bed edged crisp against the turf, a stone walk still level after mud season has had its say. They carry that work through Burlington and Williston and outward across Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.