In October the cottonwoods along Fountain Creek go the color of a struck match, and every yard in Colorado Springs inherits the fallout within a week. Legacy Landscaping treats that as the season's real work — raking, hauling, cutting the grass down one last time so it goes into the cold looking cared for. Through the warm months it is the steady rhythm instead: mow, edge, trim the corners a mower can never reach, repeat. This is dry country where a well-kept lawn reads as an act of attention, and the crisp line along a driveway says as much as the green does. Come the following spring the yard wakes up already halfway to handsome.