Everything here sits high. The town rides a wooded rise well above the plains, and on a clear September morning Pikes Peak stands off to the south like it was set there for the view. Uplift landscape and maintenance works that ground: lawns terraced into slopes, turf ending where pine duff and scrub oak begin, every yard shaped a little differently from its neighbor. Early fall is the finest stretch of the year for grass up here, cool nights and warm days and a cut that finally holds its color a full week. Mowing, trimming, edging, and the fall cleanups that follow once the oaks go rust and start letting go — through Castle Pines, Castle Rock, Sedalia and the roads climbing toward the Rampart Range.