Cuttin' It Close

About Cuttin' It Close

Davenport is hillier than outsiders expect: the ravines at Sunderbruch Park cut deep, and half the yards on that side of town sit on a grade that has to be walked before it can be mowed. Cuttin' It Close takes the name at its word — mowing those slopes on a steady schedule, edging the drives so the line comes out honest, trimming right up to the wall, the post, the mailbox. April is when the hills come back all at once, that first hard green after a long brown stretch. A hillside lawn cut tight has a look no flat yard can borrow. West Davenport, Blue Grass and Walcott.