The first flakes that mean anything usually reach Beloit near the end of November, drifting past porch lights on the corner lots while the last leaves are still coming down. Wright's Lawn & Home Care keeps the calendar for those houses end to end — mowing, trimming and edging through the long green months, cleanups when the yard needs closing, then plow and shovel once the driveways go white. There's a particular quiet to a street at five in the morning after a storm, when the walks are already open and nobody had to ask. Summer has its own version of that: a yard cut even, the border along the drive crisp, the whole place looking settled. Same house, same care, whatever the sky hands out that week.