Highland Lake keeps the last of the light long after the ridges above Winchester have gone blue, and the yards sloping down toward that water get mowed in the hour when the heat finally lets go. 5 Star Lawn Service works the shoreline lots and the streets climbing away from them, laying down even passes across grass that grows fast in lake air. Trimming follows the mower — around dock posts, mailbox posts, the granite step at the front walk — and every clipping gets blown off the pavement before the truck pulls out. Spring opens with a rake-out and fresh mulch in the beds; autumn turns into weeks of leaves moved off the grass and down to the curb. What's left behind, every visit, is a yard that reads as tended from the road.