Summer in Murrieta arrives early and stays late, the basin shimmering by mid-morning and the hills above Murrieta Creek fading to the color of toast. Heat like that is hard on a lawn, and Adame Landscape answers it with mowing, sharp trimming along beds and fences, and the dry drift of leaves and clippings swept off the walks. In Old Town the storefronts along Washington Avenue keep their small-town scale, and the side-street yards nearby show how much a tended lawn adds to a hot inland block. The kindest hours here are the early ones, before the sun clears the eastern ridges and the pavement begins to store the day's heat. When the first autumn rain finally darkens the soil, a whole summer of attention shows in how quickly the grass answers in green.