Winter arrives in Spring Lake by water first — the channel between the lake and the Grand River goes still, then grey, then hard. Accent Landscape Management is a snow removal business that works the hours before the drawbridge traffic starts, when the streetlights are the only color on the ice. A blade drops, a driveway opens, and somebody's morning becomes possible again. Walkways get a shovel and a scoop of salt, because the last ten feet to a door are the ten feet that matter. By the time the village wakes, the work reads like nothing ever happened.