Summer is short in Jackson and everyone knows it — the Ellis River runs cold into July and the grass gets maybe five good months. A&D Excavation & Landscaping makes them count with mowing on schedule, trimmed edges, beds mulched and shaped, and cleanups at both ends of that brief season. Mountain lawns are half ledge and half shade, so every property has its own quirks and its own approach. There is something particular about a trim green yard sitting under all that granite and spruce — small, human, deliberate. That contrast is worth the drive up the valley.