February at Cherry Creek State Park is all long shadows and frozen reservoir, and the wind crossing that basin loses no speed at all before it reaches the neighborhoods on the park's eastern side. bighorn landscaping and snow removal works those streets when the storms come through — plowing driveways and lots, clearing walks down to the concrete, treating the ice where meltwater refroze overnight. Snow in Aurora can be gone by Thursday and brutal on Tuesday morning; the work is about Tuesday. There is a plain pleasure in a driveway opened square to the street, the piles set where they cannot slide back. The car goes out, the day starts, and nobody has to think about the weather at all.