By January, the docks along Lake Wawasee have long since been pulled up out of the water, and the lake itself has gone hard and gray-white under a skin of ice thick enough for the ice-fishing shanties that dot it most winters. Dynamic Landscaping spends its summers keeping the lake-town yards and shoreline plantings in shape for the cottage crowd that fills Syracuse from May through September, and its winters plowing the same driveways for the smaller, quieter population that stays through the cold months. A lake town's snow doesn't always fall gently — wind off that much open ice can pile a drift against a garage door overnight — and this crew works around that, clearing driveways and walkways before anyone has to dig out by hand. Syracuse in winter is a different town than Syracuse in July, the marinas empty, the channel between the two lakes running slow and half-frozen, but the driveways still need clearing all the same. There's a particular stillness to a snowy morning here, lake-flat and silent, broken only by a plow blade scraping down to gravel one more time.