Morning on Columbia Lake arrives as a sheet of mist that lifts off the water and drifts up the shore roads before the day has decided what it will be. CDG Landscaping works those hours, when the grass is still cool and the mower's line comes off the turf clean and dark. In a town of stone walls, hayfields and long gravel driveways, a lawn kept in hand is how a house says it is looked after. The crew mows, trims by hand where the wall meets the yard, and rakes the season's litter off the turf before it mats. By the time the mist has burned away, the yard looks the way it was always meant to look.