Winter nights over the grain elevators go startlingly clear once a squall has passed — hard stars, the old Larkin blocks in silhouette, snow squeaking underfoot. Starlite Snow Removal & Lawn Care LLC is out under that sky, plowing driveways and lots, opening walks and entries, salting the ice that forms in a building's shadow and never sees sun. The warm half of the year runs quieter and greener: mowing on a weekly line, trimming and edging, cleanups at both ends of the season. Two very different halves, one route, the same houses and lots minded either way. Buffalo asks a lot of a piece of ground, and handing it back in good shape is the good part of the job.