First light in Gray arrives across open ground with nothing to slow it down. USA Mowing and Services is already out in it, while the grass still holds dew and the day has not gone hot. Mowing, trimming around posts and fence lines, edging the walks, and hauling off what autumn drops — that is the round, week after week. A kept yard out here is a small piece of order held against a very large amount of country, and anyone driving past can tell when it has been tended. By dusk the cut lies in even bands and the crickets take the field back.