Columbine opens late and high in the San Juans, coming on in July along the switchbacks toward Coal Bank while Durango down below is already deep in mowing season. Columbine Landscapes CO keeps both halves of that calendar: grass cut, trimmed and bordered through the green months, then the plow out when the high passes start feeding storms into the valley. Winter here runs dry cold and bright at noon, so snow comes off drives and walks early and the ice under a north-facing eave gets treated before anyone slips on it. Two kinds of work, one habit — arrive, and leave the place better than the weather left it. A cleared driveway in January and a straight-edged lawn in June are the same sentence said twice.