Snow comes to Poplar Grove out of the northwest over open ground, with the Wisconsin line only a few miles up the road, and it does not drift politely — it packs into driveways and buries the ends of them where the plow went past. Lee's Lawn service and Landscaping clears those drives and walks through the night, so morning starts with pavement instead of a shovel. In the warm half of the year that same attention goes into mowing, trimming and keeping lawns tidy around the village and the farms on its edges. Out here you can watch a storm arrive for twenty minutes before it lands, and there is something steadying about being ready for it. Either season, the aim is the same: a place that looks looked-after.