Greene's Excavating

About Greene's Excavating

Laurel Springs sits high enough that the Blue Ridge Parkway some mornings runs above a floor of cloud, and any storm crossing Alleghany County settles here first and lingers longest. Greene's Excavating takes the steep gravel lanes and long farm drives, pushing snow well back past the fence line so the next fall has somewhere to go and the mailbox still has a shoulder. Cold pools in the New River valley and holds; what melts at noon can turn to glass by dusk, which is why the sand goes down on the pitches and the turnarounds. Plowing, drive and walkway clearing, sanding and lot work run from the first squall to the last late-March surprise, around Laurel Springs, Glendale Springs, Sparta and Piney Creek. There is a plain satisfaction in a mountain drive opened top to bottom while the ridges are still blue with morning.