Up here the frost lets go late — Colton can still be brown into May, and then the whole town turns green in about ten days. Northern Sons Construction works that short bright season on lawns and grounds around town: mowing, trimming, edging, and seasonal cleanups that clear away everything the long winter piled up. This is sandstone country, thin-soiled and stubborn in places, so the grass that does come in deserves to be kept. A cut lawn against the foothills reads like a small act of order, and it will hold all summer if you stay after it. Then the light drops low again and the whole cycle starts over.