Brimfield sits up in the Quaboag hills, where Route 20 climbs past the empty show fields and the woods come right down to the yards. Hatfield Lawncare & Maintenance mows and trims those yards — sloped, stony in places, bounded by wall and treeline rather than by neighbors. Up here a lawn is a clearing you keep, and letting it go a couple of weeks means starting over, so the schedule counts for more than the machine. Spring means raking the winter out, opening the beds, and the first cut once the ground firms; fall means leaves off before the hill weather turns. There is real pleasure in the last pass of a Brimfield afternoon — grass even, edges cut, the light going long over Steerage Rock.