Cronomer Hill takes the weather first. Wind crosses the ridge above Algonquin Park and the high side can be white while the riverfront is only wet. R McCormick LLC runs both halves of that arrangement, plowing, shoveling and salting driveways and walks through the dark end of February, then mowing, edging and cleaning up once the slope greens from the bottom upward. A three-o'clock start in a storm has its own hush: headlights strung along the road, the blade throwing a curl of white, one driveway and then the next until the sky goes gray. By the time coffee is on in those kitchens, the pavement is clear down to the asphalt. That is the whole point of getting up.