The morning after a storm is the bright one — hard blue sky over 45th Street, everything muffled, the bay steaming in the cold. North Wind snow plowing & Tree Service works straight through it, clearing driveways, cutting a path to the door, breaking up the ridge the plows leave across every apron and putting salt down where the walk turns slick. Snow this close to the water comes heavy and wet, the kind that has to be moved rather than shoved aside. Getting it gone before it packs into ice is half the battle and all of the reason to hurry. A cleared drive on a day like that is a small piece of ordinary life handed back.