Monterey Park mornings begin with the Sandias doing their trick, grey rock at dawn and then a slow flush of color as the sun clears the crest. Turf Specialties is out early in that hour with the mowers down, cutting lawns while the air still has some cool left in it. High-desert grass wants a careful hand: the right cutting height, sharp trimmed lines along drives and sidewalks, the cuttings cleaned off before the truck moves on. The reward is the drive-up view, a lawn that looks deliberate against all this open, sunlit country. Week after week that is the whole job, and it is a good one.