Canaan sits up in the rolling oak-and-hickory country of the Missouri Ozark border, where yards run to slopes, ledges and shade instead of flat squares. Cross Lawn Care works that terrain with mowing, trimming and edging suited to ground that changes grade three times between the road and the back door. Fescue does well up here under the trees; it just wants a steady hand and a cut height that respects the summer. Morning fog settles into the hollows and lifts by mid-morning, which makes a fine hour to be finishing a lawn. A trimmed yard in hill country looks like a small clearing kept on purpose — and that is exactly what it is.