Dew sits late on the lawns under the sugar maples on Mason's older streets, and a mower makes its best line once it has burned off. Kasmar Kuts cuts for that stripe, the light and dark bands that show up best from the sidewalk in late afternoon. Spring and fall bring the cleanups: last year's leaves out of the beds, the first cut that wakes a yard back up. Grass here grows hard in May and slows in the heat of August, and the schedule follows it rather than the calendar. There is honest pride in a lawn that looks intentional from the street.