East Vail gets its sun late; the ridge has to let go of it before the light reaches the yards below Booth Creek. Abel Forestry & Landscaping works that shaded end of town, mowing and trimming grass that comes on fast and quits early in a valley this high. A lawn up here is a clearing somebody chose to keep, and keeping it means cut lines that stay even, borders trimmed back off the walk, needles and winter duff cleared before they mat the crown. On a good August morning you can hear the mower a street away and see the finished strips from the frontage road, pale and dark and pale again. There is real satisfaction in a small green square held steady against all that lodgepole.