Come out of the Virgin River Gorge headed north and the country opens all at once: Joshua trees on the flats, the Beaver Dam Mountains standing off to the east, Littlefield spread low and sunlit below. Spring is the good hour of the year here, brief and bright, and lawns come on strong before summer sets its jaw. Desert Paradise Landscaping Corporation mows through that surge, trims out the fence lines, and leaves the hard surfaces clear of cuttings. A cut lawn against all that open desert reads like a held note, deliberate and cool and exactly where somebody wanted it. Keeping it that way through the hot months is the whole craft.