By late afternoon the light over Tower Hill Pond goes long and gold, and Auburn's lawns show every ridge and hollow in it. McQueen City Landscaping cuts for that hour — an even height, straight passes, the last trimmer run made just before the crickets start up. Overgrown corners get brought back into shape, hedges shaped, beds cleared of whatever the wind has dropped in them. By mid-April and again in late October the work turns to cleanups, pulling matted leaves and winter sand out of the turf so it can breathe. It is ordinary work done carefully, and a freshly mowed yard at sundown is its own small pleasure.