Sandy Oaks Lawn & Landscaping LLC

About Sandy Oaks Lawn & Landscaping LLC

Not all of the ground around De Motte is the flat black muck the marsh left behind. Here and there a low sand ridge rises just enough to hold a stand of oaks, the kind of high, dry ground the old marsh farmers built their houses and lanes on. Sandy Oaks Lawn & Landscaping LLC works those same ridge-top streets and driveways in winter, where snow tends to blow clean off the high ground and pile instead in the low fields around it. Clearing a driveway tucked among oak trees means working around bare branches holding a light crust of snow long after the open fields have melted clear. There's a certain rightness in keeping those ridge lanes passable, given how much they've mattered to getting around this part of Jasper County since it was marsh. By midmorning, the oak-shaded drives are open again, sand-colored gravel showing through the last of the snow.