In Benton the Sebasticook runs wide and unhurried on its way to meet the Kennebec, and the morning light comes up off the water before it ever reaches anybody's yard. Frap's Landscaping and Outdoor Services works those dooryards and river-road lawns — mowing, string trimming, edging, and the raking-out that a Maine spring always asks for. There is a real satisfaction in a lawn cut clean to the treeline, the stripes lying straight, the border sharp where grass meets gravel. Summer here is short and green and worth keeping tidy while it lasts. The mowers are out from the first cut of May through the last leaf haul of October, in Benton and the towns around it.