Shepard Excavating

About Shepard Excavating

By four o'clock on a December afternoon in Laporte, the light has gone the color of pewter and the Paul Bunyan State Trail has become a long white aisle through the trees. Shepard Excavating approaches snow the way an excavating business approaches earth: as material to be moved, measured and set down where it belongs. Driveways that wind back into the woods get opened wide, with banks placed well clear of the turns. The result has a pleasing order, a path cut through the forest and headlights catching fresh-scraped ground. Where woods and water ring the whole town, an open driveway is how winter stays livable.