On the streets around Lakeland Park, the first sound after a night of snow is almost always a blade scraping pavement somewhere down the block. NeighborTreeService is often that sound. Plowing, shoveling the walks and putting salt where the ice sets up hardest — that is the whole of it, done in the dark hours so a McHenry driveway stands open before the coffee finishes brewing. Winter in this county does not ask permission; it comes down through the night and leaves eight inches lying flat over everything. The payoff is a bare apron of blacktop at six in the morning and a neighbor who never had to lift a shovel.