July in Fair Oaks is loud. Cicadas start up in the pines by mid-morning, the air thickens, and Bermuda grass puts on growth almost faster than anyone can keep up with. Fernando's Landscaping & Lawn Care Services keeps up anyway — weekly mowing at the right height for the heat, trimming around fences and mailboxes, edges recut where the turf tries to creep onto the sidewalk, everything blown back off the pavement. The reward comes at evening, when the light goes long and low over the creek bottoms and a freshly cut yard looks cool even when nothing is. Come Saturday it needs doing again, and that is fine; that is the season.