The Colorado River bends nearly all the way around Columbus, setting the town inside a loop of slow green water, and summer mornings here carry the river's softness in the air. Midway Water Gardens works lawns and gardens in this old Colorado County seat, where live oaks spread over the courthouse square and magnolias scent the side streets in early summer. Its name joins water and growing things, which suits a place the river has shaped from the start. Grass mown evenly beneath heavy oak limbs, edges kept tidy along brick walks and old porches, beds tended until the garden feels as settled as the town around it. In Columbus history is always close by, and a tended yard makes it feel lived in rather than preserved.