Above Avon the benches run to sagebrush and scrub oak, and a mown lawn up in Wildridge is a small green argument with a very dry hillside. Colorado's Landscaping Co works that line — mowing, edging and trimming, and the seasonal cleanups that keep a yard from surrendering to the slope behind it. Morning arrives hard and clear at seven thousand feet, and grass cut in that light shows every stripe it has. There is real satisfaction in a finished edge along a walk, the border drawn so cleanly that the whole yard reads as intentional. Just down the road the West Avon Preserve keeps the wild version of the same country; a lawn here is simply the tended part of it.