East of the city the pavement gives out and the Bioreserve begins — North Watuppa spreading wide and quiet, oak woods running on toward Copicut. Yards out that way take pollen in May, seed in June and leaves by the ton in October, and Pontes property services keeps pace with all of it: regular mowing, trimming around posts and plantings, edging along drives, and cleanups that carry a property from ragged back to tidy. Grass grows differently at the edge of the woods than it does downtown, and it pays to know which you are standing in. The best minute of the day is the look of a lawn just finished, before anyone has walked across it.