Late May in the high country is a green emergency — the laurel opens in the coves, rain comes most afternoons, and the grass gains an inch while you are looking at it. Mountain Laurel Landscaping meets that head-on around Vilas and Sugar Grove, mowing on a rhythm built to keep up rather than catch up. Steep ground gets cut with care for the turf, and edges get a clean line wherever lawn meets gravel, stone or bed. By June a yard up here can look as though it was always meant to sit exactly there. That is the pleasure of the job.