The hardest part of a Joliet winter is not the storm, it is the third day after — melt in the afternoon, refreeze at dusk, every driveway apron turned to glass. KD Landscape stays on it: plowing while it falls, returning to widen and square the piles, salting tracks and walks before the temperature drops out from under them. Snow gets pushed where it will not block a sight line or dam the drainage when it finally goes. Steps and entries get finished by hand, since the blade cannot reach them. The measure of a good season is that nobody slipped.