The first snow of October in Lafayette rarely stays past lunch — it whitens the shortgrass along Baseline Road, sets the prairie dogs standing up, and is gone once the sun gets high. ES & D Colorado Landscaping keeps both calendars ready for that kind of country: plowing and shoveling when the real storms come down in December, mowing, trimming and cleanups the rest of the year. A drive opened at six in the morning and a lawn cut clean in August are the same job, really — a property that looks tended, whatever the sky is doing. This is high, dry, bright ground at the edge of the plains, and it gives back to anyone willing to work with what it offers.