Late in the day Sloan's Lake turns into a mirror for the whole Front Range, and the streets around it fill up with walkers, low gold light and the smell of grass that was cut that morning. Averich Landscaping keeps those west-side lawns in trim through the season — the narrow parkway strips, the sloping side yards, the corner lots that everybody rounds on their way to the water. Denver summers ask a lot of turf, so the mowing height gets set for heat rather than habit, and the edges are cut so the line between lawn and walk stays honest. Autumn brings cottonwood leaves down by the bushel and the last mow of the year, and the yards go into winter tidy. A lawn near that lake ought to look as good as the view, and that's the whole ambition.