4 Lakes Landscape

About 4 Lakes Landscape

Just south of the Pomona Freeway, Whittier Narrows opens into water — the lakes at Legg, ringed with willows and morning herons — and that green margin is the backdrop 4 Lakes Landscape works against. Across South El Monte's compact blocks, the crew mows, edges, trims, and clears, giving each yard the kind of calm the lakeshore has at seven in the morning. There is a satisfaction in a lawn line cut straight while the haze still hangs over the valley. By the time the sun burns through, the clippings are bagged and the walks are blown clean. It is small-scale work in a small city, done so a front yard reads as clearly as open water.