Late summer in Litchfield smells like cut grass and ripening corn, the fields running right up to the lawns, apple rows on the higher ground holding the last of the heat. Guarino Landscaping keeps the mowing, trimming and edging on schedule through all of it — weekly passes, borders held clean, clippings cleared, beds kept sharp against the turf. Out past Darrah Pond the land lies flat enough that a well-mown yard reads like a green table, every line visible from the road. Autumn comes to this stretch of the valley as a slow gold rather than a sudden one, and the last cuts of the year are some of the finest. Lawn care in Litchfield and the towns along the Merrimack.