At nine thousand feet the growing season in Twin Lakes is a short, bright window, and Greenleaf Landscaping & Maintenance works it from end to end. Mount Elbert holds the western sky above town, and the grass beneath it comes in late, comes in hard, and asks for a steady hand while it lasts. The crew mows, edges and trims the yards around the lakes, keeps the borders honest against sage and willow, and clears the clippings before the afternoon clouds build over the Sawatch. There is real satisfaction in a cut lawn at altitude — that green stripe against gray granite, the smell of it at seven in the morning while the water is still flat as glass. Spring and fall cleanups bracket the year, opening the ground up and then putting it away again.