December daylight in Genesee County is a short loan — gone by five, slow to come back, the bare woods at For-Mar standing black against a low gray sky. Nick's Outdoor Services runs most of its snow route inside that darkness, plowing drives, clearing walkways, shoveling the tight ground along the garage and the front steps. Work done under headlights carries its own kind of attention; you find the edges by feel and by memory as much as by sight. What the neighborhood sees at sunrise is only an open driveway, which is exactly right.