Sleeping Ute Mountain lies along the western sky at Cortez, and the whole valley takes its weather cue from that long ridgeline. A Wood Designs Landscaping works both halves of the year beneath it, mowing, trimming and edging through the green months, feeding the turf and holding back weeds against the high desert sun, then bringing out the plow and the shovel once storms come down off the mountain. Snow in Montezuma County can arrive overnight and be gone by Thursday, so opening a drive early is what keeps a morning ordinary. Walks get scraped and treated, the shaded corners where ice likes to linger get sanded, and cleanups mark each turn of the season. A lawn that stays green out here and a driveway that stays open in January are both, quietly, somebody's doing.