The first hard frost usually beats October to the valley floor, and one morning the grass around Angel Fire is white, stiff and done growing for the year. Moore HomeCare takes the closing cut before that arrives: lawn brought down to its winter height, edges cleaned up, leaves and stems gathered off the ground. Elk drift through the meadows in those same weeks and the light goes thin and gold by four in the afternoon. Through the summer the same yards get regular mowing, trimming and clearing on the valley's compressed schedule. It is steady tending of homes in a place where the season gives nobody a second chance.