The Waterloo hills were left in a hurry by the ice, and the yards out here are clearings held open inside oak and hickory. Life Transition Care mows and trims those clearings, working the lanes around Mill Lake and the kettle ponds where the grass runs right up to the edge of the woods. Shade, root and slope make for lawns with opinions, so the cutting is done to suit the ground rather than fought against it. Trimming around trunks, stone and fence posts is slow work, and it is also the part that decides whether a yard looks kept. Cleanups in spring and again in late autumn move the leaf load off before it mats down and smothers what is underneath.