The last hour of daylight is the honest one. JVC Landscaping LLC is usually still out in it, finishing the far end of a route toward Stockbridge — a final pass with the mower, the edger run along the walk, trimming around the light posts, then the blower before the ramps go up. Landscape work fills the rest of the day: mulch, plantings, bed reshaping, cleanups when one season hands off to the next. McDonough runs on schedules that do not care about heat or humidity, and a yard gets held to the same standard at seven in the evening as at seven in the morning. Loading up on a job actually finished is the good part.