Mid-Michigan hands out its worst weather in half-degrees: a February day that thaws by noon and refreezes by four, glazing every drive in Owosso with something you cannot walk on. Dick's Landscaping reads those days closely — clearing what fell, treating what is about to turn slick, keeping the path from the door to the car honest underfoot. It is unglamorous and it matters more than almost anything else in winter. The other half of the year the work is mowing and trimming and cleanups, the slow weekly shaping of a yard out of a ragged spring into something with clean lines. Both jobs come down to the same thing: getting there ahead of the trouble.