The first plowable snow usually turns up in late November — quiet at first, then serious by the time the streetlights come on along the Perryville corridor. M2 Landscaping LLC takes the call then and keeps it through the winter, plowing, clearing lots and driveways, and opening the paths people actually walk. There is something deeply satisfying about watching painted lines reappear stripe by stripe behind the blade. Rockford winters run long and arrive in waves, so the work is less about one big storm than about showing up for a whole season of them. Come morning the place looks open and ordinary, and nobody has to think about it.