The heaviest snow of the year in La Junta usually comes in March — wet, clinging, the kind that bows an elm limb until it lets go sometime in the night. Complete Tree Service is out in that weather clearing the ground below it: plowing drives and lots, shoveling walkways and steps, and hauling the fallen mess off the pavement so people can get through. Tree work teaches you to look up before you start and to think hard about where weight is going to land, which turns out to be a useful habit at five in the morning with a blade on the front. Spring snow in the valley is heavy and short-lived, so you move it before the sun turns it to slush and the night turns the slush to ice. A drive opened, a walk swept down to bare concrete, the limbs stacked well out of the way.