June mornings in Owen start out wet, the dew heavy enough to soak your boots by the second pass and the air still cool off the fields before the day turns hot. MTS Mowing waits for the grass to dry, then works through yards that out here tend to run big, with room enough for a mower to open up and lay down long, even stripes. Trimming around the mailbox post, the clothesline anchor, the shed corners — that is where a yard either looks finished or does not. Standing back at the road afterward and seeing the whole place read as one piece is a plainly good feeling. In country where a homestead can be picked out from half a mile off, it shows.