Under Amherst there is limestone — the same ledge the creek drops over in the village, the same rock that holds cold long after the air has given it up. Winter here behaves accordingly: the ground stays frozen under a thaw, and the melt turns to glaze by four in the afternoon. Limestone landscaping & snowplowing plows for exactly that — driveways cleared to the hard surface, walks shoveled and salted, the refreeze spots treated before they become the problem. Lots get opened wide, not merely wide enough. It is plain work, and the measure of it is that nobody slips.