Monkton is board fence and hayfield, with the Gunpowder Falls running cold beneath the bridge and the old rail trail tracing the valley alongside it. DC Mowing Service, LLC mows out where lawns end at pasture and the machine has to hold a line against ground that rolls every which way. Summer mornings begin with fog sitting low over the creek and burn off about the time the second yard is finished. There is a plain pleasure in the finish — an even cut, trimmed close along the fence rails and the stone wall, clippings blown off the gravel so the drive looks like a drive again. Big country deserves a tidy foreground.