In February the reservoirs around Brewster — Bog Brook, Diverting, the Middle Branch — go flat and pale, and the cold rolling off that water settles into every low driveway in the town of Southeast. Chamberlain Landscape Services runs its winter route through those hollows: plowing residential drives and commercial lots, clearing walks and entries by hand where a blade can't reach, and laying down salt at the aprons and slopes that glaze over first. Long gravel drives get the patient treatment — pushed back wide early, so there is somewhere to put the next six inches. The best part of the job arrives before sunrise, when a lot that was blank white at three in the morning is squared off and open by six. Snow work in this county is measured in mornings that go the way they were supposed to.