By the middle of October the older streets near downtown Loveland let go all at once, and for about ten days the gutters run gold. American Turf & Tree Care spends that stretch clearing leaves off lawns before the mat can smother what lies underneath, then aerating and overseeding so the bluegrass has something to wake up to. Turf on the Front Range lives a hard life — thin air, hard water, fourteen inches of moisture in a generous year — and it answers to feeding and to being cut at a sensible height. The rest of the season is mowing and trimming on a rhythm, week after week, the sort of steadiness a lawn can actually use. When the first snow arrives the yards are already put right, waiting quietly underneath it.