Long before daylight touches the ridgelines around Springfield, ScharpScapes trucks are already working the rural driveways that wind up from the county roads into the hills—long gravel lanes that a landscaping crew knows from every other season, now buried under a foot of new snow. The stars out here stay sharp and close on a clear cold night, with no city glow from Omaha bright enough this far out to dull them, so the work happens under a genuinely dark sky broken only by headlights and the plow's amber light bar. Summer means grading beds and shaping yards across these same rolling properties; winter means keeping the long lanes passable so a resident can get down to the highway in the dark hours before sunrise. Some of these driveways run a quarter mile from the road, plenty of ground to cover before the sky even starts to gray at the edges. By the time Springfield's few streetlights start to look pale against the coming dawn, the hill properties are already cut through, ready for whoever needs to leave for work.