Lamar sits where US-50 and US-287 cross, and in winter that intersection is the first place in town to learn a storm has arrived. Abundance Landscaping LLC works the hours before the traffic wakes, pushing snow off driveways, lots and walkways while the streetlights still hold their halos. Southeast Colorado snow is a dry, restless kind — it drifts more than it piles, and clearing it means reading which way the north wind laid it down. The reward is a lot swept to bare pavement and a walk you can cross without thinking about your feet. On the prairie, that counts as hospitality.