An August storm can cross Howard in twenty minutes and leave the pines dripping and the whole place smelling green. Landfair Lawn Services works the hours on either side of weather like that, when the ground gives a little underfoot and the light through the trees goes long and yellow. Mowing, edging, trimming around fence posts and mailbox poles, clippings blown off the walk — simple work, carried all the way to the end. Out here a yard runs right up to the hayfield, and the place where kept grass meets pasture ought to look deliberate. That line is the signature.