Four in the morning on Orchard Road, and the only color in Oswego is the amber turning of a beacon on fresh snow. ASE Illini-Scapes keeps that hour deliberately, ahead of the first headlights easing toward Route 34, because a driveway given back before the commute is a different thing than one returned at noon. The order holds every time: open the drive, cut the walk, then salt, then a last pass along the garage apron so a car door swings clear. Kendall County storms ride a northwest wind that crosses open ground with nothing to slow it, which means drifts rebuild and the truck comes back. What the work is after is simple and hard to fake — dark wet pavement at sunup, and a street that looks like the storm skipped it.