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Where the Gunnison comes in to meet the Colorado, the cottonwoods along the riverfront let go all at once in June and the whole valley seems to float. This Grand Junction lawn care outfit works the neighborhoods just up from that water — weekly mowing, trimming, clean edges, and the hauling that keeps a lot from surrendering to goathead and dust. Snowmelt off the Grand Mesa fills the ditches, the ditches fill the yards, and anything green here grows because somebody decided it would. The pride is in the ordinary rhythm: a lawn cut the same day each week, the walk blown clear, the strip by the mailbox never forgotten. Grand Junction is a green town set down in red-rock country, and keeping it that way is somebody's Tuesday.