Fall Creek moves slow and dark through the middle of Fortville long after the rest of town has gone still for the winter, and it's along the streets that trace its bends -- Maple, Berry, the older blocks near the creek -- where Arkenau Landscaping starts its mornings before the sun clears the grain bins to the east. The plow drops first on driveways where a car needs to be gone by seven, then works out toward the quieter lanes where the only rush is getting the paper off the step. Icy walks get salt and a second pass; a heavy overnight dump gets hauled clear of the mailbox so the carrier isn't wading through it. There's a particular satisfaction in a clean line of pavement showing through where an hour before there was nothing but white, and that's the standard here -- driveway, walk, and curb, done before Fortville's first coffee is poured. Arkenau Landscaping works Fortville and the roads around it, McCordsville and Mt. Comfort included, keeping the small-town rhythm of an early start moving through winter.