RealScapes

About RealScapes

Snake River Landing is still young as neighborhoods go — the trees along its streets still staked and slight, the sod still filling in — and RealScapes treats every one of those new driveways like it deserves the same care as an established block across town. A first winter in a house on the river's edge outside Idaho Falls can catch a family off guard, the cold coming off the water different from what they expected out of the desert around it. Clearing those driveways and walks means working around saplings and new turf that a heavier hand could damage, so the plow blade rides a few inches higher and the shovel does more of the close work near the beds. Helping a brand-new street settle into its first hard winter looking as tended as an older one is worth doing carefully. Streets that were bare dirt eighteen months ago now have driveways cleared to the curb every time it snows.