Late in the season the fields around Fort Lupton fill with the noise of harvest — corn coming off, onions moving out, pivots clicking their slow circles into the dusk. Mas Vida Landscaping works closer to the houses, keeping lawns mowed, trimmed and edged from the first green of spring to the last cut of fall. Cleanups at both ends of the year clear away what the wind and the cottonwoods leave behind. There is dignity in growing things well, whether it is a quarter section or a front yard forty feet across, and the care is the same care. This valley has always understood that.