Hold up your right hand and Shepherd sits about at the middle of the palm — flat farm country, wide sky, the Salt River wandering south toward Alma. Mid Mitt Lawn Care LLC works that middle ground with mowing, trimming and edging right through the season, and cleanups when the thaw comes and again when October empties the trees. Out here the wind has room to run, so leaves pile in the same corners every fall and the mowing lines show from a long way off. Getting those lines straight is half the pleasure of the job. The other half is a yard that looks finished the moment the trailer pulls away.