Spring wind hits the top of Elings Park hard enough to hold a kite steady over Las Positas without anybody working the string. Down on the sheltered side the grass is thick and rising fast, and every week counts more than the last. Gosnell Tree & Landscape mows, edges and trims lawns around Santa Barbara and clears the cuttings so nothing blows back across the yard. Slopes take a different hand than flat ground — cross-cutting for footing, keeping the line true where the grade turns. When the mower shuts off and the wind takes the dust away, a hillside lawn stands there evenly green from crown to bottom.