Evening comes early to Rudy, the ridges pulling their shadow across the valley an hour before the sky is done. Kingdom Living Rolloff Services keeps yards cut here and out toward Mountainburg and Alma — mowing on a steady rotation, trimming the fence lines, edging where the gravel meets the grass, carrying the cuttings away. Summer in these foothills is humid and green, and after a wet week the growth is heavy enough to slow a mower down. Autumn changes the job to leaves off the hardwoods above, which come down all at once when the first cold front pushes through. Both ends of the year come down to the same thing: a place left clean at dark.