From the terraces below Lookout Mountain you can watch the Flat Tops hold light long after Glenwood Springs has slipped into shadow, and the lawns up there are cut out of a hillside that would rather be scrub oak. Rocky Mountain Lawn and Landscapes tends them all summer — mowing on the contour, edging beds and paths, trimming the slope edges no wheel can hold, cleaning up at both ends of the year. In winter those same benches are the first to drift and the last to let go, so the plow and the shovel come out for the driveways, the turnarounds and the walks. Working on grade teaches you where water wants to go, and knowing that makes both jobs better. The mountains do as they please; a well-kept yard is the part we get a say in.