Winter in Saint Germain is not an interruption; it is the main event, arriving early over Big Saint Germain Lake and staying until the ice groans in April. Accent Landscapes, LLC keeps the cabin drives and resort lanes open through all of it, plowing deep Vilas County snow so the lights stay on in the pines. Then comes the brief, brilliant northern summer — loons on the water, long dusks — and the work shifts to mowing and trimming lakeside yards that spend half the year buried. Grass grows fast up here, as if it knows its season is short. The job is to keep pace with both extremes, and in the Northwoods that is a full calendar.