Late May in Boone hands out an hour of gold light after supper, and it falls kindly on fresh mulch and a sharp bed edge. Midwest Touch Landscaping llc works that hour around Boone and the towns beside it — mowing, edging, shaping shrubs, laying mulch dark against new green. Under the old bur oaks the prairie left standing, a bed cut with a clean curve makes a whole yard look composed. The measure is simple: stand at the mailbox once the truck is loaded and see whether the place has been given its due. It usually has.