In January the wind crosses Little Traverse Lake loaded and lets go on the hills behind Maple City, and a driveway can vanish between supper and bedtime. N&S Property Maintenance runs snow removal through all of that — plowing, clearing walks and steps, salting where meltwater turns to glass by morning. Summers here are short and green, and the same properties get mowed, edged and trimmed while the season lasts. Leelanau asks a lot of whoever keeps its yards and drives open, because both halves of the year arrive with their sleeves rolled up. The steady answer is a place kept passable and kept neat.