July mornings in the Arkansas Valley come dry and bright, with Mount Ouray still holding a rag of snow off to the southwest and the grass already asking for a cut. Don's Lawn Care spends those mornings mowing, trimming and edging yards around Salida, where thin air and hard sun mean turf earns every inch it grows. A crisp edge along a walk is a small thing, and it is also the whole point — the line between kept and unkept, drawn clean. By evening a yard smells green and looks squared away, and the swallows work the cool air above it. Mowing and lawn maintenance run through Salida, Poncha Springs and the nearby valley towns.