Winter opens the sky over Sage Township wide, the pines going black against it and the lake country north of here holding onto the last blue at four in the afternoon. Skyline Property Development LLC works under that sky with a plow blade, clearing drives, lanes and lots so nobody has to guess where the gravel ends and the ditch begins. When the melt comes and the ruts settle, the same properties get mowing, trimming and cleanup, the long green half of the year handled with equal attention. There is a real pleasure in a driveway pushed back square to the edges, and an equal one in a first cut that finally makes a yard look like a yard again. Across Gladwin County, that is the full circle of the work.