Along Route 26, where Oxford loosens into dooryards and low stone walls, the grass runs right up to the porch steps and the woods keep their distance just past the mailbox. The Kutting Edge Lawn Care & Landscaping tends these yards — the sloping lawns above Thompson Lake, the flat green aprons on the old mill streets, the rough margins where a field still wants to become a lawn again. There is a plain pleasure in the doing: the even rows a mower leaves behind, the clean line trimmed hard against a foundation, the beds raked open in spring and the leaves gathered off before the first killing frost. By late afternoon a yard holds its shape the way the western foothills hold the last of the light — settled, cared for, quietly its own.