Whiteford Township is drawn in straight lines: section roads, fence rows, and the Ohio state line running just south of the last mailbox. Out here a lawn sits wide open with nothing to hide behind, so Ace Tree Service and Landscaping, Inc cuts it to look right from the road, with even height, borders held along the drainage ditch, and grass swept off the pavement before the truck pulls away. Summer arrives hot and slow over the corn, and a mowed yard in that flat light reads like an act of order. Come autumn the maples in the windbreaks let go all at once, and the leaves get gathered up so the turf is not buried when the frost comes. It is plain, steady work for the homes and farms between Ottawa Lake and Lambertville, and it shows.