After a rain the whole neighborhood smells like wet grass and wet clay, and the yards need a day before they can take a machine. Mowing and Moore waits out the soft ground and then gets to it — mowing, trimming close around trees and downspouts, tidying the borders until the yard reads as one clean shape. Grass comes roaring back after a soaking, which makes the timing more instinct than schedule. Come autumn the leaves let go nearly all at once and the raking and hauling starts in earnest. What gets left behind is simple and good: a property that looks finished from the road.