The first real snow of the year lands on the Sangre de Cristos long before it reaches La Cienega, so for a few weeks in November you work in shirtsleeves under white mountains. Three R Landscaping spends that stretch closing yards out — final mowings, leaves and fallen debris cleared, edges cut sharp one more time so the shape holds through the dormant months. Their warm-season work is the steady kind: mowing, string trimming, keeping weeds from creeping out of the gravel and into the grass. Nothing about it is complicated; all of it is timing. Done on schedule, a yard here goes into winter looking intentional and comes out of it ready.