Camino de Piedra Landscaping

About Camino de Piedra Landscaping

The name means the stone road, and there is one just south of La Cienega: the black basalt shoulder of La Bajada, dropping away toward the river country. Camino de Piedra Landscaping keeps yards up on the bench above it, where grass has to be argued for and every blade is earned against piñon-and-juniper ground. Mowing, edging, trimming the weeds that push up through gravel — the routine is simple, the standard is not. What they like is the moment the mower's last pass lines up with the wall and the whole yard suddenly reads as one shape. Then the shadows lengthen off the mesa and the work stands there, still, until the next visit.