Snow Blower

About Snow Blower

Winter dusk over Berkeley Lake turns the ice a bruised blue, and the sound carrying across the water is an engine and a steady white arc landing somewhere in a yard. Snow Blower works the north Denver blocks out toward Regis and Tennyson Street, blowing driveways open and cutting clean lanes down front walks and around the alley aprons. Steps and stoops get shoveled by hand where the machine can't reach, and the slick spots get salted before the temperature falls away through the evening. There's nothing fancy about it — a path wide enough for a stroller, a wheelchair, a kid with a backpack, open well before morning. That's the whole job, and it's worth doing right.