An edge is where the work shows. Along the white clapboard and old maples of Essex Center, Clean Cut Property Maintenance runs the line between lawn and walk, lawn and bed, lawn and drive, with mowing, trimming and cleanups that leave a yard looking like somebody decided how it should be. In June the grass grows faster than anyone expects and the whole town needs cutting twice a week; in January those same properties need the driveway open and the steps clear before anyone's day can start. Snow has its own version of an edge, the plowed line held tight to the pavement and the walk shoveled square at the corners. Different tool, same instinct. Essex, Essex Junction and the roads out toward Jericho, all four seasons of it.