Rain in Blaine County turns the gypsum hills a deeper rust and brings the bermuda up almost overnight. Cortez landscaping meets that surge in Watonga with mowing, trimming and clean edge work, out on the streets that run back toward the canyon country at Roman Nose, where springs keep the draws green longer than the plains around them. Every yard here argues with the same two things — wind and thin red soil — and a lawn that holds its color is a small argument won. The crew leaves the clippings scattered and the lines drawn, and the difference shows from the sidewalk before anybody steps into the grass. Spring is the season that runs hardest, and it gets taken at a run.