First light comes over the Diablo Range low and gold, and for about ten minutes every lawn in Santa Clara is lit sideways so you can read the mow lines like grain in wood. EarthEye Landscape cuts to that grain. The blades go one direction this week and the other direction next, because turf leans toward the sun and a lawn that is always cut the same way starts to lie down and sulk. Edges get their own attention — the strip along the driveway, the curve around the walk, the little border everyone notices and nobody mentions. By the time the valley heat arrives the mowing is finished and the yard is standing up straight.