Franklin is still mostly hayfield and hillside, a town where the road bends around a barn rather than through it. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE AND LAWN SCIENCE LLC keeps the lawns here — the ones cut out of pasture along Route 32, the ones running down toward Susquetonscut Brook, the ones that simply end where the treeline starts. On late-summer evenings, mowing once the heat lets go, the grass smells like the fields around it and swallows work the open ground behind the machine. The ground swings from stony to rich within a hundred feet, and the mowing and edging are set to match it. What's left when the trailer ramp goes up is a lawn that looks intentional against all that open country: an even cut, a firm border, and a swept drive.