Wet snow loads the spruces first — you can watch the boughs bend along the wooded edges out toward the Denville line while the driveway is still only dark and shining. SpruceScapes Contracting & Snowplowing starts before it gets ahead of them, plowing drives, opening walkways and salting the entries where a couple of degrees decide everything. Evening storms are the tricky ones, because the temperature falls as the light goes, and slush at four o'clock becomes a rink by seven. Timing is most of the craft, and the proof of it is a driveway that never gets the chance to freeze over. The trees can keep their snow; the pavement cannot.