Morning comes to Delta the way it comes to any town under a mesa — late, and then all at once, light spilling off Garnet Mesa onto grass still holding its dew. Alpine Custom Mowing Inc works those hours, when the valley air is cool enough that a blade cuts clean and the clippings fall where they're meant to. Mowing here is a conversation with a high, dry place: grass that grows fast under ditch water and burns quick under a 4,950-foot sun. There is real satisfaction in the last pass of a yard, when the lines lie parallel and the border along the walk is drawn straight as a fence wire. That is the whole point — a lawn that looks tended from the street and feels it underfoot.