Griswold sits where the eastern uplands go quiet, and the roads along the edge of Pachaug State Forest can turn white inside an hour. All Elite Landscaping works that hour — plow down, headlights forward, a driveway opened while the pines are still holding their breath. The satisfaction here is plain and physical: a clean strip of pavement, a walk you can cross in sneakers, a car that starts and simply goes. Storms in this part of the state come in with boughs bending over the shoulder and drifts stacking against the stone walls, and each one gets answered the same way — early, and all the way out to the edges. It is snow and ice work, done for people who need to be somewhere in the morning.