West of Middlebury village the land flattens into open farm country, and on an October morning the fog sits low in it until Snake Mountain burns through. That is cleanup weather — maple leaves off the grass, one last low cut, the beds squared away before the ground hardens for good. By January the wind out there has nothing left to slow it, and a driveway can drift shut a second time before afternoon. Tom Bodette Landscaping & Lawn carries the mowing and trimming through the summer and the plowing, shoveling and salting after, across Middlebury and the towns beside it. It is ordinary work done on time, which in this valley counts for most of everything.