On a June evening the light comes down the valley long and gold, and the Chattahoochee runs cold out of the mountains just north of town. Merck's Landscaping LLC works those hours around Cleveland — mowing lawns, shaping shrubs, cutting fresh lines into beds so mulch and plantings sit against something definite. Landscaping here is part gardening and part earthwork: the ground rolls, the soil is heavy, and things have to be set where they will hold. What lasts afterward is the look of a yard where every element seems intended. That's the piece worth staying late for.