Snow reaches Rockford on a northwest wind, sliding down out of Wisconsin with nothing but open farm ground to slow it. It drifts across the county roads, packs against garage doors, and turns a driveway into a morning-long argument. Hawker Landscaping Solutions works those nights — plowing drives and lots, shoveling walks and steps, and salting where the melt refreezes into glass before sunrise. The reward is small and complete: black pavement at six in the morning, a walk you can carry groceries across, a lot open before the first car turns in. Winter here is long, and getting out of it easily is worth something.