December in the Prospect neighborhood turns the narrow streets and back alleys into something out of a storybook, right up until somebody has to get a car out of a garage. SJ Ward Landscapes handles the tight Longmont properties where a big blade has no business going: drives and parking pads opened, walks and stoops shoveled clean, ice treated where the shade holds all day long. Snow gets put somewhere sensible rather than in front of a neighbor's gate. It is careful work, done close to the house, at a walking pace. The result is a doorstep a person can step out of in ordinary shoes.