Open country drifts. In Crystal township the wind crosses a mile of stubble with nothing to slow it, and a driveway cleared at midnight can be closed again by six, which is why Miller Lawn Care runs the route more than once. That means plowing, shoveling walks and steps, and salting the slick spot where a drive meets the road. Come April the same yards want mowing, trimming and edging, and the year turns over again. There is honest pleasure at both ends of it — a clean black drive in the blue dark of a winter morning, and the first cut of May with the deck packed full of green.