Down in the Arkansas bottom the old cottonwoods throw a shade so wide that the grass beneath them keeps its color into August while everything out on the open ground has gone pale. R&L Tree Service & Removal LLC keeps lawns in that country around La Junta — mowing, edging and trimming, working carefully around trunks, surface roots and the low branches nobody wants scalped. Mowing under trees is its own skill: dappled turf, uneven footing, and leaf litter that shows up all at once in late October. Cleanups take care of that, bringing the whole fall down to clean ground before the cold settles. A yard cut even from full sun straight through deep shade is a quietly satisfying thing to stand and look at.