January on Tucson's east side is the month locals keep quiet about: sixty-eight degrees, snow dusting the Rincons, Tanque Verde Creek running a few days after rain. Desert Valley Landscaping spends those months on cleanups and cutbacks — clearing beds, removing debris, trimming back what summer overgrew, keeping winter weeds out of the rock. When the heat returns so does the weekly mow, with edging along drives and walks and trimming around every trunk and post. Nothing is left behind but a clean line and a swept sidewalk. Out toward the Rincons a yard is the last tended thing before the desert takes the rest, and it ought to look the part.