Summer along the Huerfano is bright and dry, and a lawn out here holds its color only if somebody stays after it. Patriot Pride Landscaping mows, edges and trims through the long southern-Colorado light, then turns around in winter and plows the same driveways and lots it spent the season keeping green. Walsenburg sits at the place where the high plains give up and the mountains take over — cottonwoods down in the river bottom, Huerfano Butte out on the flats, snow that can show up in October and skip December entirely. Caring for a property in both directions suits a town where nothing stays the same for long. Cleanups in spring, mowing all summer, a plow blade in January: one set of hands, the whole calendar.