The painted Dala horses that stand along Lindsborg's Main Street hold their color through every kind of weather, and there's something almost cheerful about their bright orange against a fresh snowfall, a detail Doriot's Landscaping crew notices every time they clear the walk in front of one. The company spends its summers keeping yards and beds tidy across Lindsborg's Swedish-built blocks, and in winter shifts that same attention to driveways and sidewalks, working the residential streets in careful, even passes rather than a single quick clearing. Snow off the Smoky Hill bottoms tends to sit heavy and damp, and left alone it packs into ice by afternoon, so driveways get done early, before the day's traffic has a chance to compress it. Garden beds and shrub rows get pushed clear too, snow lifted off rather than shoved into them, the same instinct that guides a summer's pruning. By the time the horses along Main Street are catching full daylight, the driveways worked that morning are bare down to the concrete.