There is a particular pleasure in a straight line, and out where the roads run the section grid and the fields are ruled off square, people notice one. Landon Bailey Maintenance cuts lawns in and around Lamotte with that in mind — mowing passes laid even, trimmer work close and level along the foundation, an edge along the drive that does not wander. Midsummer noon here is hot and bright and loud with cicadas, and the work happens in it anyway, because grass keeps its own calendar. Autumn brings the leaf cleanups, the bigger and better-smelling half of the year. Either season, the measure is the same: a yard that looks finished when the trailer gate comes up.