Winter here usually arrives as a clipper off the plains: three or four inches, dry and quick, laid down on Twelve Mile Road between midnight and four in the morning. M&T Landscaping LLC works that window — plowing driveways and lots, cutting walkways down to bare pavement, putting salt where the apron meets the street so the first car out at six backs into daylight instead of a rut. When the ground finally lets go in April the same trucks come back carrying mowers, and the calendar flips to weekly cutting, edging, string trimming and fresh mulch in the beds. Cleanups at both ends of the growing season handle whatever the wind has left behind. Two trades, one map, the same short list of Southfield streets in either weather.