There is a moment on a July morning, before the heat gets its hands on the day, when Albany looks newly rinsed — the Broad Avenue bridge catching first light over the Flint, dew still holding on everything east of it. That is when Clean Cut Landscape Management likes to begin: mowers off the trailer, string trimmer around beds and posts, edger opening a hard line where turf meets concrete, blower sweeping the walk bare. The pleasure of the trade lives in that line, straight and unbroken, and in the way a fresh-mown lawn keeps its stripes into the evening. Every yard on the route gets the same sequence, no step skipped. Albany, Putney, Leesburg and the roads out toward Sylvester make up the week.