South of town the road climbs into the Boyne valley, where fields lie in long strips between wooded ridges and the grass comes on fast with June rain. Boyne Valley Landscapes cuts and keeps those properties — the wide ones with room to swing a mower, and the tight ones tucked hard against a tree line. Mowing, trimming, mulch laid dark around a foundation, and the seasonal clearing that stops a yard from going back to the woods. Up in the valley a lawn is really a clearing somebody decided to hold, and holding it is the whole job. The best hour is the last one, when light comes level down the valley and every stripe stands up.