A February chinook can come over the foothills warm enough to open the windows, and two days later the same street is under six inches. Elite Landscape & Outdoor Living plans for both, plowing driveways, clearing walks down to the surface, and treating the ice that sets along north-facing porches. When the yards come back, the work returns to mowing, edging, trimming and the cleanups that keep a patio worth sitting on. Outdoor living in Colorado is a year-round proposition; the yard only changes what it asks for. The measure of it is stepping outside in either season and finding nothing in your way.