Mount Cutler keeps its shadow over Hiram village well past sunrise, and mowing in that cool blue hour is one of the better bargains in Oxford County. Lionsden handyman starts there and works outward — the village yards, the places along the road to East Hiram, the lawns that end suddenly in ledge and require a trimmer and a little humility. Grass grows fast in this valley and slows on the ridges, so the route bends to the ground rather than the calendar. Cleanups bracket the year: winter's litter dragged out in April, leaves gathered in the short bright weeks of October. A yard left tidy at the end of a hot day is a small thing that a whole street notices.