You can watch a squall come across the east arm of Grand Traverse Bay — the far shore goes gray, then Old Mission disappears altogether, and ten minutes later East Bay township is full of snow. Accurate Outdoor LLC plows through those lake-effect nights, opening driveways, clearing walks and salting the slick places that form on a sandy grade. In summer the work turns green: mowing, trimming and edging the yards between the bay and the hardwood ridges inland. Up here winter runs long and the growing season is short and bright, and both deserve to be handled well. A drive cleared before the school bus, a lawn cut even in July — same standard, different weather.