Lake Ontario writes Utica's winters. The bands come off the Tug Hill in long ribbons and unload on Oneida County, and the whole question of a January morning is whether the driveway is open before the buses run. Grass Geeks plows and clears through those storms, then spends the warm half of the year fussing over the very same addresses — mowing on a schedule, trimming close, keeping a lawn thick enough to shrug off August. The name is fair warning: somebody here genuinely cares about grass. Two opposite jobs, one set of driveways, twelve months.