East of the freeways, Chula Vista climbs toward the brown flank of Mount San Miguel, where Otay Ranch and Eastlake have grown neighborhood by neighborhood across old ranchland. Mornings out there start cool and bright, with the Otay Lakes holding the light below the hills and Olympic hopefuls already training at the water's edge. Epic Landscape Construction builds landscapes and maintains lawns in Chula Vista, where a new yard often begins as bare graded dirt and becomes, with the right work, somewhere to live. The satisfaction is in seeing it through: ground shaped, lawn laid in, then mowed and edged until the lines look like they have always been there. In a city whose name means 'beautiful view,' a finished yard is a small view of its own.