Malvern sits at the edge where the Loess Hills start rising up out of the Missouri River bottomland, a landscape unlike almost anywhere else in Iowa, with steep bluff faces that catch and hold snow in drifted pockets long after the flatter bottomground nearby has been scraped clean by the wind. All Seasons Property Maintenance works both sides of that landscape, clearing driveways cut into the hillsides above town as carefully as the flatter lots down in the valley, where a plow can run a straight line without a grade to fight. The bluffs change how a storm behaves here — snow that blows clear off an open field further out will pile deep against a hillside driveway sheltered from that same wind — so no two properties around Malvern clear quite the same way. Early winter mornings up in the hills carry a stillness the open bottomland never quite gets, snow lying thick in draws and ravines that don't see direct sun until well past nine. By midday, the cleared drives across town sit as a patchwork of dark, plowed lines against hills that hold their snow far longer than the ground below them.