July in Newport smells like cut grass and two-stroke, and Hank's Husqvarna is the reason more than a few lawns in town look the way they do. Blades sharp, deck level, height set for the heat — the small decisions that separate a lawn that's been mowed from a lawn that's been kept. The weekly cut goes with the trimming around posts and stone and the edging that makes a driveway look like somebody meant it. Come autumn there is leaf work and the fall cleanup, the yard taken down to bare and tidy before the ground locks up. Grass grows on its own; everything else is the work, and it shows from the road all summer.