Four in the morning in Fort Gratiot Township, and the only lights moving are amber ones — a plow working a subdivision loop while the houses sleep behind drawn curtains. Cut-N-Trim Lawn N Landscape runs that shift: driveways opened wide enough to back out of, walkways cut to bare concrete, salt down where the overnight melt would otherwise glaze by sunrise. The measure of the work is simple and it happens at seven o'clock, when a car pulls out without a shovel ever leaving the garage. Lake Huron snow arrives sideways here and rarely announces itself, so the answer is showing up and finishing. That is the whole promise of a winter morning done right.