Barataria is a ribbon of high ground between the bayou and the marsh, where cypress stand in the water and the light comes off it doubled. Allscape Services keeps the yards along that ridge — mowing grass that runs fast in the wet heat, edging where lawn meets shell drive, cutting back the palmetto-thick corners and hauling off what a windy week brings down. Down here the weather arrives from the water first, and a lawn tended before a blow is a lawn that recovers after one. A clean-cut yard with the marsh grass waving just past the fence line is worth standing back to look at. It's a small piece of order at the edge of a great deal of wild.