At six in the morning the Lamoille valley is still blue, mist lying low over the river below Morrisville, and somewhere up a camp road a plow is already turning a driveway back into a driveway. That is the shape of the work at Stowe Home Care Maintenance: snow moved before the coffee cools in winter, and in the warmer months lawn care and landscape maintenance, spring and fall clean ups that carry the maple litter off a yard until the grass shows clean edges again. They also stand as boots on the ground for homeowners here — property management, HOA and commercial and municipal accounts, house cleaning, carpentry and renovation from framing to finish work, and equipment rental when a place needs more than hands. It is unglamorous, physical, and deeply satisfying: a dooryard swept of leaves under Sterling's long shadow, a road-side bank cut back square, a house in the hills that looks cared for whether anyone is home or not. Between Morristown and Stowe, the seasons turn hard and fast, and this is the crew that keeps the properties turning with them.