Follow Brush Creek south out of Eagle and the valley narrows into hay meadows, cottonwood bottoms and ranch lanes, climbing all the way up to Sylvan Lake in the aspens. Brush Creek Landscaping, BCL keeps the lawns along that run — mowing, edging, trimming out fence lines and ditch banks, and cleanups when the cottonwoods drop an entire year at once. Mornings in the creek bottom are ten degrees cooler than town and smell like wet grass and willow. The light up that road is hard and clear, unforgiving of a crooked edge and glorious on a straight one. Grass, creek, hayfield, aspen — the order of things hasn't changed much, and the work fits neatly into it.