Spring in La Cienega begins with water: the ditch runs again, the willows go a nervous green, and every yard in the valley wakes up hungry. Gonzalez Landscaping LLC starts its season right there — the first cut of the year, winter litter pulled out from under the shrubs, ragged borders squared up after months of dormancy. From then on it is mowing and trimming through a summer that runs hot at midday and cools the instant the sun tips behind the Jemez. They keep grass at a height that can take the altitude and the light, and they keep the borders true, because a straight edge is what tells the eye a whole yard is cared for. Come November they close it out the same way they opened it, tidy and ready.