Summer arrives late up the Yampa Valley and packs up early, which is why grass here grows like it has somewhere to be. DOMI Services works inside that short bright window — mowing on a weekly rhythm from the first green flush of June to the gold of September, trimming tight along fences, walks and river rock, and clearing the beds each spring of everything the melt leaves behind. Nothing about a high-country lawn is automatic; it wants attention in the exact weeks it is given. The reward is a yard that holds its color through the long evenings, when the light lingers over the valley past nine. Come autumn they haul the leaves off before the first hard freeze locks them down for good.