Mill Creek runs low and green through the farm country around Yale, and mornings here often start with mist standing over the corn until the sun burns it off. Alexander's Landscaping & Paving LLC mows, trims and edges lawns across town while that early cool still holds. There is real satisfaction in the moment a shaggy yard turns into clean stripes and a hard, straight line along the walk. Cleanups come in their turn — the wet mat of April leaves raked away, the beds cut back when the maples let go in October. It is ordinary work, done well, on the same flat rich ground the fields are made of.