There's a strong Norwegian thread running through Lake Mills, visible in the surnames on Main Street and in a town that has always taken its winters seriously, and Rygh Landscaping carries that same unhurried care into its winter work. Out past the edge of town, the prairie pothole marshes near Rice Lake State Park freeze hard and hold their ice long after the roads have been cleared, a reminder of how flat and open this stretch of Winnebago County really is. The crew moves through neighborhoods early, before the wind has a chance to redraw the drifts, clearing driveways and walks down to the pavement rather than leaving a compacted skin of snow behind. It's the same attention that goes into a summer flower bed turned toward a winter driveway — edges square, corners clean, nothing left half-done. On the coldest mornings, when the marsh ice groans and the wind has a straight run across the fields, a freshly cleared drive stands out sharply against everything else still buried in white.