Summer mornings in Fruita start early, before the heat comes up off the pavement on Aspen Avenue and the shade pulls back to the curb. That is when AMFM Dumping and Lawn Care is already out with the mower, cutting while the grass still holds the cool of the night. Mowing, trimming and edging are the daily work, and what is left behind — the clippings, the branches, the pile of yard waste that has been waiting all season — goes out with them instead of sitting by the fence. There is a plain satisfaction in a yard that looks finished rather than merely cut. In a town where sage country starts at the end of the block, a green lawn is something a household chooses on purpose, and it is worth keeping well.