Morning comes in slow over Charlton, the light sliding down glacial hills and old stone walls, over hayfields and orchard rows, before it ever reaches anybody's front lawn. A Cut Above Lawn Care & Landscaping works in that hour — mowing the long slopes and shaggy roadside strips of this south-central Worcester County town, trimming close to the granite and the fence posts where a machine can't reach. There is a plain pleasure in a finished pass: the stripes lying straight down the yard, the edge along the walk cut clean enough to run a thumb along, clippings swept off and the grass standing up green again. A summer here can go from soaking to scorched in a single week, and the mowing answers it either way, keeping lawns in Charlton and the towns around it level, tidy, and holding their season. By evening the engines are quiet and the yards look like somebody cared.