Flyway Landscapes

About Flyway Landscapes

Velva sits inside the Central Flyway, and the same river valley that draws thousands of geese through every fall and spring is the ground Flyway Landscapes works all winter, long after the last skein has passed over for the season. The valley holds cold air much the way it holds migrating birds, low and lingering, so a hard frost here can outlast the one sitting just a few miles off on the open prairie. Flyway Landscapes clears driveways and lots along that low ground, timing routes around the valley's habit of icing over before the higher fields do. McHenry County's open country toward Towner catches the wind straight on, and drifts pile there in long even ridges very different from the pooled, quieter snow down in the valley bottom. Whichever stretch of the valley a job falls in, the crew brings it back the same way: bare pavement under the tires, a clear path to the door. Come spring, the geese will be back over the same valley Flyway Landscapes spent the winter keeping clear beneath them.