Ashburnham center is white clapboard and steeples, the common holding its green well into September while the hills behind it start to turn. Grass Ops Landscaping mows, edges and trims along those center streets and out the roads toward Ashby and Westminster. September cutting is the sweetest stretch of the year here — cool mornings, grass thickening again after August, stripes that hold all week. Spring cleanups get the sand and sticks out of the beds; late autumn it is leaves, load after load of them. Neat lawns fronting old houses on a village street suit this town, and they are a satisfying thing to leave behind.