In Edwards, a green lawn is an argument with the altitude. At 7,200 feet the air is dry enough to pull the dew off the blades by nine in the morning, and the Eagle River still runs high and cold in May while the yards above it are only starting to wake. American Lawn Care & Irrigation works that balance — charging the sprinkler lines in spring, tuning heads so nothing waters the pavement along Highway 6, mowing and edging through the short bright summer, then blowing the lines empty before the first hard freeze. There is real satisfaction in a zone that throws an even arc at six in the morning, and in a lawn that holds its color deep into September because of it. Up here the grass is half water, and both halves get watched.