The township took its name from a crossing of the Rouge where the clay ran red, and that river still bends through Redford under the bridges. Winter here arrives on the wind out of the northwest, dry and businesslike, and it does most of its work between midnight and five. R & E Snow Removal-Landscaping is out in those hours — plowing driveways, cutting a clean shoulder along the pavement, shoveling steps and walks, laying down ice melt where the shade keeps a patch slick all day. There is nothing quite like the sight of a black driveway at first light with white banked neatly on both sides. Nobody has to think about the weather that morning, which is exactly the idea.