Mount Lamborn keeps watch over the North Fork valley, and Paonia lives in its lap — orchards, small pastures, a main street that runs a few blocks and then stops. K&B Landscaping & Lawncare works the full calendar there: mowing, trimming and seasonal cleanups while the valley is green, plowing and clearing walks once winter takes hold in the bottom of the valley. Snow down here can be shallow while the peaks are buried, then heavy on the very next storm, so the truck stays ready for either. A yard cut on schedule all summer and a drive open all winter add up to the same thing — a place that is easy to live in. That is the job, month after month, up and down the North Fork.