Late sun on the ridge above Lake Compounce throws Southington's southeast corner into long gold, and out toward Marion the old farm lots still hold their shape. SLC Landscaping LLC tends properties across that ground all year, mowing, trimming, edging, mulching and running seasonal cleanups while things grow, plowing, shoveling and salting once they stop. Thaw week in March is the strangest stretch of all, plow one morning and rake the next. The work gets judged from the curb, in whether a place looks minded or looks left. Around here most people would rather it looked minded.