Late August in Orland arrives heavy — thick air, cicadas sawing all afternoon, thunderheads stacking up in the west that you can watch approach for an hour before they get here. TomKatz Lawn Service works around that sky, cutting in the cool part of the morning and finishing the trimming before the first rumble. Grass under that kind of heat wants a taller cut and a keen blade, and it shows: a lawn that holds its color instead of scorching, its edges kept crisp along the drive. A train slides past on the SouthWest line, another yard is done, and the block looks squared away. Around Orland and the towns out past the county line, that is the shape of the season.