Stakes and Flakes

The day after Thanksgiving 2025, workers from the KPVillas landscaping contractor installed snow sticks demarcating cement from lawn. The stakes arrived just in time.

Stakes mark the edge of a driveway.

By Sunday morning, homeowners were waking to a heavy fallen snow that the crew from New Generation had started to clear overnight. Sidewalks and some space in front of garage doors were shoveled by hand. Before sunrise, a plow cleared a single lane for early traffic and emergency vehicles.

An inaugural push clears the roadways for early traffic and emergency vehicles.

Later a maneuverable Bobcat prowled the neighborhood and cleared the driveways and edges of roads.

A Bobcat with a snow pusher attachment clears a driveway.

Whether this snow lingers remains to be seen, but from looking at their faces even the nutcrackers standing guard at the entrance view the accumulating snow with dismay.

Nutcrackers standing at the entrance overlook a growing pile of snow.

But there's good news. In three weeks, at the December solstice, the days start getting longer.