Dresden is still a farming town in the shape of its land — long fields off Route 128, stone-picked and hayed, with houses set well back from the road. Hodgkiss Property Management looks after the lawns in among all that: mowing, string trimming, edging along walks and drives, and hauling off the leaves once the maples let go. On a big country property the mowing lines are long enough to be worth doing beautifully, sweeping around the barn and out toward the field edge. There is pride in the moment the machine shuts off and the whole place is one even green with a hard border around it. In a town of open land, a kept yard becomes its own kind of landmark.