Snow falling past the lamps at Sibley Square Park makes downtown Wixom look older and smaller than it is. Bobs Supreme Lawn Care & Snow works under that light, plowing driveways and clearing walks while the rest of the village is still at the window watching it come. Winter here rarely lands all at once — it arrives in three-inch installments, with a thaw between that refreezes into something meaner. So the route gets run twice when it needs running twice, and the icy spots get treated where a walk dips and holds water. When the first car pulls out onto Pontiac Trail in the morning, the way is already open.