When the West Arm freezes, the ice shoves up along the shore in plates and the wind comes straight down the water into town. Bay View Landscape spends that season on snow — clearing drives and lots, opening walks, scattering salt where the melt has re-frozen overnight. There is a plain satisfaction in a lot cleared corner to corner, and in the moment a customer's car backs out without hesitating. Every storm here writes a slightly different problem: wet and heavy in November, dry and blowing by January. Reading it right is most of the craft.