Ground Appeal

About Ground Appeal

January in Edgewood Village is stone farmhouses, bare fields and a sky the color of slate, and every so often it turns loose eight inches overnight. This is snow work: plowing driveways and lots, shoveling and clearing walkways to the door, spreading salt where ice takes hold first — the north-facing walk, the bottom of the slope, the shaded apron by the garage. Long lanes off the back roads and tight suburban drives ask for different handling, and both of them get it. The finish line is a property that simply lets the day happen normally. By the time the trucks reach Yardley-Newtown Road, these drives are already open.