Halifax lies flat under oak and pitch pine, and on an August evening the light arrives sideways and turns every mowed lawn gold for about ten minutes. Pratt's Tree Service is usually finishing up around then — last trim of the day, blower run down the walk, gate latched behind. Across the season it is mowing, edging, bed maintenance, and the cleanups that bracket April and November. Work like this gets judged in inches: the line where grass meets pavement, the corner nobody else bothers with. Halifax yards get both.