In Peralta the light arrives east-first, laid along the Manzanos long before it reaches the valley floor. CGS Landscaping LLC starts the mowers while the grass is still cool and the shadows still run long toward the river. There is a plain satisfaction in a lawn cut clean to its border, the edge holding a straight line against gravel and drive. Summers here ask a lot of a yard — thin soil, hard sun, an afternoon wind that comes up out of nowhere — and the answer is simply showing up, week after week, with a sharp blade. By evening the yard sits trim from the fence line in, and that's the point of the day.