Kinnikinnick creeps low and glossy under the lodgepoles at the edge of town, staying green beneath every foot of snow that lands on it — a fair thing to name a lawn and garden business after in a place like this. Kinnikinnick Lawn & Garden Inc works the growing season hard, because Steamboat Springs does not hand out many weeks of it: mowing, trimming, bed care and planting, cleanups as soon as the frost lets go in spring and again before it takes hold in fall. The joy is watching a yard come back — that first mow of the year on grass that spent six months underneath. They keep it cut, keep it fed on the calendar the mountains set, and keep the borders honest. High-country gardening is a conversation with a short summer, and they know its vocabulary.