In July the clouds stack up over the Jemez by two in the afternoon, and the whole city starts watching the sky sideways. Southwest Landscaping Materials works the hours around that — mowing and edging through the bright part of the day, then standing back while the rain comes down Cerrillos Road in a gray sheet and the piñon smell lifts out of everything. Monsoon grass grows fast and uneven, so they come back for it: a level cut, string-trimmed corners, weeds pulled from the gravel margins before they set seed. There is something deeply satisfying about a lawn that looks composed the morning after a storm, while everything around it is still dripping and wild. Santa Fe gets only a few weeks of that easy growth a year, and they are worth keeping tidy.