Snow lands on Simpson's Rest first, filling in the white letters on the bluff until the whole mesa reads as one blank page. Down in the streets below, JQ Services is already moving — plow lights swinging across driveways, a shovel opening the front walk, grit worked into the steps so the first person out the door doesn't have to think about it. Most of this happens while the town sleeps, and that is exactly the point: the morning should feel easy. Clearing snow means the car goes, the mail gets through, the dog gets walked without anyone's feet sliding out. Snow removal for Trinidad and the towns close by.