The Mogollon Rim stands up behind Star Valley, a two-thousand-foot wall of stone and ponderosa that decides the weather for everyone below it. In autumn that wall drops needles and oak leaf into every yard along Highway 260, and Adams Family Landscaping/Junk removal comes through to take it out — turf and beds blown out, matted litter raked up, the whole load hauled off. Through the growing months the work is mowing to an even height, edging the drive, and trimming close where lawn runs into pine duff and rock. Pine shade makes grass grow thin, so it is cut high, fed on time, and kept free of anything that would smother it. Come November the yards are bare, swept and clean-edged, ready for the cold that arrives early under the Rim.