Just after a storm the fields out along Neelytown Road turn blue in the shadows and blinding everywhere else, and by then the plowing is already done. Snow removal is the service: clearing driveways and parking areas, shoveling steps and walks, and treating with salt or sand so the melt-and-freeze cycle does not turn a clean lot into a rink by evening. Piles get pushed to the corners where they will not block sightlines or fill the spaces back in. Storms in this part of Orange County arrive at every inconvenient hour, so the route runs when it needs to run rather than when it is comfortable. Waking up to an open driveway is a small thing that changes a whole morning.