Colorado City sits under red cliffs that change color three or four times between breakfast and dark, with Canaan Mountain standing over the whole town. Desert Rose Landscaping works this high country where winters bite and summers run dry, mowing, trimming and edging, then clearing beds of the tumbleweed and juniper litter the wind keeps delivering. The growing season is short and honest here, so every cut counts and the shape a yard carries into October is the shape it wears until spring. Snow does reach Short Creek, and ground that was cleaned up beforehand comes out of March well ahead. Colorado City and the neighboring communities along the Arizona Strip make up the service area.