The Ela River runs low and clear through Farmington in midsummer, and out toward the New Durham line the hayfields go gold before anything else in town does. Thomas E Huckins LLC mows and maintains the lawns in between — weekly cutting, trimming, edging, and the cleanups that bracket the growing months on either end. July heat will burn a lawn that gets scalped too short, so the height is set for the weather rather than the calendar. A yard cut with that kind of attention holds its color deep into August. There are worse ways to spend a bright morning than making an acre of green look deliberate.