Canaan Street runs along its ridge with white houses on one side and the lake bright on the other, and by mid-June the whole town smells like cut grass. Thomas Clifford Property Services, LLC tends lawns and grounds across Canaan — mowing, trimming, edging, mulching beds, and clearing a yard down to bare ground each spring and again each fall. Below the hill the Northern Rail Trail holds its old straight line toward Mascoma, and the properties strung along it get the same steady attention as the ones on the water. There is real pride in a lawn that keeps a line, in a band of mulch with a crisp shoulder to it. Canaan rewards that kind of care, since so much of it is already beautiful.