Late August in Steamboat Springs is chokecherries darkening in the hedgerows and blue spruce holding its color while everything around it begins to think about turning. Natures Design of Steamboat Springs Inc. spends the season on lawns and plantings — mowing and edging week after week, shaping and maintaining beds and borders, cleaning up in spring the moment the snow pulls back and again in autumn once the leaves have let go. A yard designed for this valley has to look right in September and then survive the six months that follow. That is the craft: choosing well, then tending what you chose. The satisfaction is a property that reads as composed from the street without ever announcing how much work is inside it.