North of Montrose the Grand Mesa lies flat against the sky, and you can watch weather stack up on it hours before it reaches the flats. APS Alpine Property Services works both ends of what follows: plowing and shoveling when it arrives, mowing and trimming through the long green stretch when it doesn't. Properties out here need tending in different languages depending on the month, and the point is that nobody has to think about which one it is. A drive opened at dusk in February, a lawn edged in July, same job with a different tool in your hands. Montrose notices when a place is kept, and keeping it is the work.