By November the cottonwoods down in the South Platte bottom have gone gold and let go of most of it, the grass has faded to a quiet tan, and there is one last pass to make before the ground sets hard. pio lawn care handles that closing round in Commerce City — a final mow, edges tidied, leaves gathered up out of the corners where the wind piles them against a fence. Done properly, a yard goes into the cold looking cared for instead of abandoned, which matters more than people think when they look out the window in January. The rest of the year it's the steady work: mowing, trimming, edging, keeping a lawn even through the dry Front Range summer. Put a yard to bed right in the fall and it comes back that much easier in April.