From the height of land above Essex Center, the last light of a late-October afternoon runs off the fields and leaves Camel's Hump standing dark on the southern skyline. Top Tier Properties works the yards on those upper roads and the ones down in the village both, with mowing, trimming and fall cleanup work while the season holds, and plowing and shoveling once it lets go. Wind matters on high ground, since snow that fell politely overnight gets rearranged by noon, and a driveway sometimes needs a second visit to stay a driveway. Grass behaves the same way in a dry August, when the schedule has to follow the growth instead of the calendar. Paying attention to that is most of the job, and the result is a place that looks squared away every time you come home.