Four in the morning on the North Side, the streetlights still burning orange over Grant Boulevard, and somewhere a blade is already down with a plume of white curling off it. AAA Quick Plows & Lawns Inc. works both halves of the Syracuse year — the long white one that arrives in bands off Lake Ontario, and the green one that begins the week the last gray pile melts out of the shade. Winter here means plowed driveways, cleared walks and salt laid down before the first car backs out. Summer means mowing on a rhythm, trimming close, and edges that follow a walk like a drawn line. The reward is small and complete: somebody steps out their door into a drive that is simply, quietly clear.