Upton grew up around a brook and a hat shop, and the village still keeps that scale — tight lots, deep old gardens, and grass running right up to fieldstone laid a very long time ago. Stone & Garden Services works inside those bounds with mowing, trimming, edging and cleanups that keep a yard crisp without erasing what makes it old. Late May is the moment, when the lilacs finish and everything green decides to double overnight. Around here a lawn is not a field so much as the space between things, and cutting it well means respecting every wall, bed and shade tree the property already has. What comes out of it is a place that looks tended rather than tamed.