The Sugar River drops through Claremont in a run of falls, and the brick mills along it still set the shape of the streets and the small yards behind them. Stevens Lawn Care mows those yards and the wider ones out on the hillside roads, where the view opens west toward the Connecticut and Ascutney standing beyond it. In-town lots reward precision: an even cut, edges held against brick walk and granite curb, trimming close along fence pickets and porch skirting. In spring the work is stripping winter's leavings out of the turf; in fall it is staying ahead of the leaves until the last of them are down. Claremont and the towns around it, on a schedule, all season long.