October turns this canyon gold — cottonwoods along the creek, scrub oak going copper on the hillsides, and the red rock out toward Garden of the Gods lit up like a coal at the end of the day. Colorado Greenscaping spends the season keeping lawns in shape for all that light: mowing, edging, trimming, and clearing the leaves the Ute Pass wind delivers by the truckload. A Manitou yard packs a lot of ground into a small footprint, half of it on a slope and the rest of it wrapped around rock. Getting the turf even across that, with the lines crisp where grass meets gravel or stone, takes patience more than anything else. Then the cold comes down the pass, the grass rests, and the yard waits it out looking cared for.