The morning starts with the sound of it — mower decks trued to sand-thin soil, a Bobcat idling before it noses into a grade, hands setting one wall stone against the next until the seam disappears. Sofkin Landscaping works the length of Cape Cod, from Hyannis and Barnstable out through Osterville, Cotuit and Centerville, east to Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Chatham and Orleans, west to Sandwich and Mashpee — mowing and feeding lawns from the soil up, shaping patios and retaining walls, running irrigation from spring startup to fall winterization, trimming, pruning and removing trees, and putting in orchards, rose gardens and hydrangeas that answer the salt light the way only Cape plantings do. Spring cleanups pull the winter out of a yard; fall cleanups and fresh mulch tuck it back in. When the Sound goes gray and the weather turns, the same crews clear the snow off drives and walks. There is a plain, physical pleasure in what gets left behind — a mowed edge holding its line against a sandy border, a wall standing true, a driveway open at first light, a property that keeps its shape all the way around the year.