The hills around Moscow roll in the same long, smooth curves whether they're gold with wheat stubble in October or white with the season's first real snow — the Palouse doesn't really have a flat acre in it, and Palouse Plowing LLC works those curves the way a farmer already knows them, blade tilted to the slope instead of fighting it. Moscow itself sits in a fold of that country, downtown brick buildings and the University of Idaho's tree-lined streets tucked below hills that hold their snow long after downtown's streets have gone back to bare wet pavement. Paradise Creek runs cold and low through town under a skin of ice most winters, and the driveways and walkways nearby get the same steady clearing the surrounding farmland gets. There's a particular kind of morning here when fog sits low in the ground between hills while the ridgetops above catch the first sun, and a driveway scraped clean before that happens is one less thing to navigate on the way out. Moscow's in-town streets and its outlying Palouse farmsteads both get the same care, hill by hill, storm by storm.