Urban Landscaping

About Urban Landscaping

October in Burien is a long soft rain and a great deal of maple. The big-leaf maples around Lake Burien let go all at once, and within a week a lawn can disappear entirely beneath gold the size of dinner plates. Urban Landscaping spends that stretch clearing leaves off turf before the wet mats them down and burns pale patches into the grass, then squaring away one last measured cut for the year. It is unglamorous, soaking, satisfying work — rake, blow, haul, and the yard comes back green underneath like something recovered. Come the still mornings after, when the lake holds the whole sky upside down, the lawns along those streets are open and breathing again.