In the Black Forest the ponderosa stand close enough that snow comes off the branches in slabs hours after the sky has cleared, and the shade holds ground cold well into April. Black Forest Landscaping Inc. works those properties and the rest of Colorado Springs across both seasons — mowing, trimming and edging the open sunlit stretches of yard in summer, plowing and shoveling the long tree-lined drives in winter. Needle cast and leaf litter come off the turf in the fall cleanup, and ice treatment goes down where a packed lane bends into shadow and never sees a direct hour of sun. Out toward Shoup Road the driveways run long and the snow falls deep and dry, and the work gets measured in how far you can see down an open lane. The same hands, the same properties, all the way around the year.