Cove Creek keeps its own weather: cool nights all summer, fog in the bottoms most mornings, and a growing season that shows up late and leaves early. High Country Tree and Landscaping LLC mows and trims the yards and roadside banks along the creek and up toward the ridges of western Watauga County, where a level lawn is something somebody built on purpose. The work runs hard from May through September — cutting, edging, trimming back whatever crowds the walk — then turns to cleanups when the hayfields go tan. Mowing a bank you can barely stand on is its own skill, and a clean finish on one is worth the sweat it costs. In the high country, tended ground reads as warmth against a great deal of mountain.