The San Miguel River carries the snowpack past town all summer long, and the lawns above it live on whatever gets handed to them, which is where Telluride Irrigation begins. Spring means charging the system, walking every zone, watching heads pop and adjusting spray until nothing is soaking a sidewalk. Summer means the ordinary rhythm of lawn care, mowing, edging, trimming and beds kept clear, with water dialed for thin air and a hard mountain sun. Fall means blowing the lines out well ahead of a freeze that can arrive in September as easily as October. Green grass at eight thousand seven hundred feet is never an accident; it is a schedule kept.