Fog sits low on Lake Blue Ridge most mornings, then lifts off the coves like something being uncovered. Collins Professional Landscaping mows and trims in that hour, when the grass is still cool and the ridges behind Morganton are only beginning to take on color. A mountain yard is half clearing and half slope, so cutting one well means reading the ground before a blade ever touches it. Walks get edged, the string trimmer takes the fence lines and the stone, and the clippings come off the drive so the finished yard looks like it was always that way. There is real pleasure in the last pass — the lines laid even, the lake going silver below.