Four in the morning on Square Lake Road, an Alberta clipper an hour past, and the township is nothing but blue dark and unbroken white. K&B seasonal services is out in it — plowing driveways, clearing walks and the path to the door, and salting the places the melt will refreeze before sunrise. Bloomfield Township's drives are long and curving, climbing and bending between the hills, which makes a plow route here more steering than speed. The measure of a night's work is plain: headlights back out onto clean pavement at seven and nobody has to think about the storm at all. Winter keeps arriving off the lakes; the answer is to get there before it hardens into ice.