Highway 34 runs arrow-straight into Wray through country stitched with center pivots and green circles of corn, and the town at the end of it sits down in the Republican River valley, tucked out of the wind. E-Z Irrigation/HWY 34 Sales looks after the lawns there — mowing, edging, trimming and seasonal cleanup for yards on the valley floor and up on the bench above it. Eastern Colorado summers are long, generous with sun and stingy with rain, so a well-kept lawn out here reads as a small daily act of will. Cutting it clean, running the trimmer along every fence line and walk, leaving a yard that looks complete: that is the job, start to finish. Then autumn comes down the valley and the cleanup begins again.