Northeast El Paso gets its light first, a flat gold that comes across the desert and hits the roofs along Dyer before anyone has poured coffee. Al's Landscape Maintenance is usually already unloading by then, because a lawn cut in that cool half hour looks better and holds better than one cut at noon. The routine is unglamorous and exact: mow, edge, trim around the mailbox post and the gas meter, blow the drive and the gutter clean. By the time the sun is fully up the truck is two streets over and the first yard is sitting there sharp-edged and quiet. It is honest maintenance work for a part of town that has always started early.