Lake Loveland holds the last of the evening light long after the west side of town has gone violet, and that low hour is when a freshly cut yard looks the way it should. A Better Cut Lawn Service keeps the mowers running through the streets around the lake and out into the Thompson Valley, on a steady weekly turn from the first green push of spring to the final cut. The edge is the part worth stopping to look at — that clean seam where turf gives way to concrete, straight enough to read from the far curb. Front Range grass grows hard in the long light and then sulks when the dry weeks arrive, so the height and the timing shift with the summer instead of fighting it. By October the work is leaves and bed cleanup, the yard put down square and tidy for winter.