Late August on Blue Ridge Lake: the water low against the banks, the coves quiet on a weekday, the mountains stacked blue behind one another toward the state line. Shoreline properties ask for more than a quick pass with a mower. O'Neill Landscape Group takes on the fuller scope — mowing and edging, bed and shrub maintenance, mulch, and the landscape work that ties a house to the slope it sits on. The reward is arriving at a place that looks composed from the dock as well as from the drive. Blue Ridge and the lake communities around it are where the days go.