Late September in this canyon country turns the aspens on the Cimarron Range a gold you can pick out from miles down the road, and the first frost is never far behind it. Yard Solutions works the shoulder of that season — the last mowings, the fall cleanup, leaves and needles raked out of the fence corners, shrubs trimmed back before the cold takes them. Summers here are brief and busy, so the grass gets cut on a tight rotation while it is growing at all. A yard put properly to bed in October is worth more than any amount of fussing in April. The satisfaction is in the bare ground: nothing left lying, everything ready.