By evening the Sebasticook runs pewter below the Hartland dam, and the mowing light turns gold across the village lawns above it. Deepedge Landscaping works that hour on purpose — grass cut when the heat has let go, the trimmer following fence line and foundation, and then the edge itself, that thin dark seam where lawn stops and walk begins. Hartland is a mill village with old houses set close and camp lawns out along Great Moose Lake, and both kinds of yard reward the same patience. Spring here starts with raking winter out of the beds; fall ends with the last leaves off before the ground goes hard. What stays in mind, driving away, is the stripe pattern holding straight all the way to the road.