From the rim at Outwater Park you can see the whole lake plain laid out north of Lockport, and in winter it holds the dark a long while before dawn. Mr Meticulous Landscape & Design keeps that hour — plow down before daylight, driveways and lots opened, steps and walkways cleared by shovel, salt laid where the melt will refreeze. The pleasure of the job is in the geometry: full width, square corners, snow stacked where it will not block the view backing out. By the time the neighborhood's coffee is on, the pass has been made and the truck is a street away. Winter here asks for that kind of early rising, and this is a business shaped around it.