Late in the day the light comes sideways over Johnnycake Mountain and lands on Burlington's lawns at the one angle that shows every stripe and every missed edge. Medeiros Landscaping LLC works to that standard — grass cut clean, borders held, the yard left looking settled once the truck pulls out. The ground here is glacial and stubborn, tilted far more often than flat, so mowing is as much about reading a property as running a machine over it. Through the growing season the routes climb the town's ridges and drop into its hollows, then carry on into the valley towns nearby. It is ordinary work done carefully, which is what a whole street of good-looking yards is actually made of.