Before the heat comes, Fort Lupton runs on water — headgates cranked open, ditch water sliding down the rows east of town, everything green because somebody made it green. Quality Landscaping LLC works lawns the same way, one steady pass at a time: mowing while the grass is still cool, trimming close to fences and foundations, cutting an edge along the walk so clean it looks drawn with a straightedge. Look west from a finished yard on a clear morning and Longs Peak stands right there over the rooftops; look east and the plains simply keep going. A lawn is a small, deliberate square of order held between the two. The pleasure is in coming back at the end of the day and finding the stripes still holding, the clippings gone, the drive swept.