When the long light of evening slants down Veterans Memorial Boulevard, the oaks along the neutral ground throw their shadows clear across the lawns of Metairie. That golden hour is a good time to run the last passes of the day, when the heat has broken and a mown yard holds the cooler air. Southern Cutters take pride in the low, even cut and the clean strip of trimmed grass where the lawn meets the curb. A yard finished at dusk here looks settled, ready for the parade season the boulevard is famous for. There is craft in leaving a place looking that composed before the day gives out.