Our snow patch

Our narrow driveway doesn't get the sun so the snow is slow to melt. I did get the car out.

Later that morning my neighbor called to tell me that he hoped I didn't mind that he put some snow on our drive. "No, it'll melt." 

He tends melting snow banks around his house, sending a shovel into the icy heaps to break it up so that it will melt faster. Then it occurs to me. Under that mound of snow between his house and our drive is his garden patch. 

Can there be anyone as optimistic as a gardener?