First light out here is a long blue hour before the sun clears the Sangre de Cristos, and the doves get going before anything else does. Indigo Spirit Landscapes favors that hour for mowing — grass cut cool, edges trimmed clean along the walks, clippings cleared, weeds taken while the ground is still soft. Yards on this mesa sit among chamisa and cholla that answer to nobody, which makes a tended lawn a deliberate thing and worth doing with care. By the time the day turns hot the work is behind and the yard is holding its shape. A lawn cut straight in early light looks the way a morning ought to look.