October turns the cottonwoods along the ditch banks a hard yellow, and then one cold night brings the whole year's worth of leaves down at once. Telluride Eco Lawn & Garden meets that head-on — leaf and debris cleanup, final mowings, and the trimming and edging that put a yard to bed square and clean. Frost comes early to open country like this, silvering the shortgrass before sunrise and burning off by nine. Getting a lawn tidy before the ground locks up is half the reason the following spring goes well. There is a plain reward in the last cut of the year: everything swept, everything ready.