The first real snow usually shows up in November, blown down from the northeast with the lake behind it, and by morning the Little Calumet bottoms are white to the treeline. Fresh Landscaping & Snow Removal is out in it — plowing drives, shoveling steps and walkways, spreading grit and salt where a shaded north-facing slab has turned to glass. Winter in the south suburbs is one long argument between thaw and refreeze, so a property gets checked and treated as many times as the weather asks. Clearing a drive down to bare concrete is a small kindness people feel every single morning after. That is the standard the work gets held to, storm after storm.