The first real snow in Le Ray usually shows up in November, sliding in off the lake on a gray afternoon and then declining to stop. Speedy Green Inc. is ready before it does — routes set, drives and lots to be opened, walks shoveled, ice handled where the shade holds all day. What makes a north country winter demanding is not any single storm but the accumulation of them, one band behind another from now until April. Getting a driveway opened early means the day can start on time, and that is the whole measure of the work. The blade goes down, the white parts, and the way through appears.