West of Delta the land gives up on green altogether — the adobe hills go gray and folded, and the county roads that cross them turn slick as soap the moment moisture touches them. H.H.Huff Excavating brings machine work to winter here, pushing snow off long drives, yards and lots where a shovel would be a joke. Some jobs in this valley are measured in feet of walk; others are measured in acres, and those need iron. There is a plain pride in a wide lot opened up in one clean set of passes, the windrows stacked out of the way where they can melt without flooding anything. Big ground, opened properly, so the trucks and the tractors can get to work.