Down along Sand Creek the cottonwoods go loud in any breeze, a papery rush you hear before you feel the wind. The yards backing onto that green ribbon share the sound, and Adrians Lawn Care Services keeps them worthy of it: mowing on a steady rotation, edges cut clean at the drive, trimmer work around posts and hydrants and the one stubborn corner behind the shed. Late-summer afternoons here can build a thunderhead in twenty minutes, so the day starts early and finishes before the sky changes its mind. Come October the leaves let go all at once and get raked, gathered and hauled away. Simple things, carried all the way to the end.