Lake Quinsigamond lies flat and pale in February, and the wind coming off it finds every driveway in Quinsigamond Village. VIP Landscaping runs the plow through those streets and the neighborhoods climbing away from the shore. A thaw-refreeze week is the hard one: whatever softens at noon comes back as a sheet by dark, so the pavement gets scraped down rather than skimmed. The satisfaction is early and quiet — a drive cleared while the sky is still black, a walk cut to the width of a stride, a car leaving on time. Worcester asks a great deal of a winter, and the route gets run anyway.