The cottonwoods down in the Yampa bottom turn all at once at Craig — one cold night in early October and the whole river corridor goes yellow. Elvis Tree Care LLC spends that stretch of the year on cleanups: leaves off the lawns and out of the beds, shrubs and hedges shaped back, the final mow taken low before hard frost. Through the warm months the rhythm is steadier — cutting, edging, trimming, keeping turf fed and thick enough to crowd the weeds out. A yard looks its best when nothing about it shouts, when the lines are simply clean and the grass reads as cared for. That is the standard the work is aimed at, one week at a time, around Craig.