Summer mornings in the Pine River valley start cool, with mist lifting off the Los Pinos before the sun clears the ridge east of town. That is the hour Bayfield Land Clearing likes best for mowing — grass still heavy with dew, the cut coming off clean and even down the length of a yard. Lawns here sit between hayfield and ponderosa, so the work is part tidy edge and part holding the line where the pasture wants to come back. Trimming along fence posts and irrigation boxes, a straight border cut at the walk, the clippings gathered instead of left in windrows. By the time the day heats up over the HD Mountains, the yard is finished and the shade under the pines is the only thing moving.