North of Harrisburg the land lies open — wheat stubble, section roads running arrow-straight at the horizon, and the sky doing most of the talking. Aesthetic Acres works the yards that sit in that wide light, where a lawn is the one shape a person gets to draw for themselves. Mowing lines go down straight enough to answer the fields, and the edge along the drive is cut back until concrete reads as concrete again. String trimming takes the mailbox post, the porch steps, the base of the maple; then the walks are blown off and nothing is left behind but grass. When fall comes the leaves are gathered and hauled and the yard is put down for winter. Plain work, finished to something you can see from the road.