August in Washington County smells like cut grass and warm gravel, and the light hangs on past nine o'clock over Route 1. Calais Powersports keeps lawns in that light — mowed even, trimmed close along fences and foundations, the clippings carried off so a yard looks finished rather than merely shortened. The growing season this far east is short and it does not waste a single week, so neither does the mowing. Come autumn there are leaves to gather off the grass before the ground turns hard, and a last low cut to put a place to bed. It is plain work, kept up on schedule, out on the far edge of the map.