Winter mornings in Los Chaves arrive with sandhill cranes calling over the bosque and frost silvering the grass until the sun gets around to it. G & L Landscaping Pros works the yards along this stretch of the Rio Grande, mowing through the growing season and clearing the cottonwood leaves that pile deep once the river woods let go. Trimming takes the ground around fence posts, ditch banks and tree trunks, while edging keeps grass from creeping over the driveway lip. Whatever comes off the yard is loaded up and carried away, so a finished lawn is genuinely finished. Between the Manzanos and the river, a lawn held in good order looks like it belongs to someone who loves the place.