A lawn out here begins as a decision made in April, when the wind coming off the dryland wheat still has winter in it. Arnold's Custom Seeding works the ground around Keenesburg the way these plains ask to be worked — soil opened, seed set at the right depth, water timed against a sky that gives little and takes it back fast. Mowing and trimming carry the yard through summer, and the fall cleanup puts everything to bed ahead of the first hard freeze. There is a particular satisfaction in walking a bare patch in May, finding it a green haze by June, and seeing it thick enough in August to hold a footprint. On roads where every section line runs straight to the horizon, a well-kept yard is a small and deliberate act of care.