Morning in Raymond comes in low off the Lamprey, mist caught in the pines along Route 27 until the sun finally burns through — and by then the mowers are already running. Matt's Mowing Services, LLC keeps lawns cut, trimmed and edged across Raymond and the Rockingham County towns around it, working the thin, root-shot, sandy ground that New Hampshire hands you between granite and pine. There's a plain satisfaction in the doing of it: a ragged yard brought down to clean parallel rows, the edge along a walk drawn straight as a chalk line, the clippings blown off the drive before the truck pulls away. Come July, when the heat sits heavy over the village and the old rail-trail woods, a lawn kept on schedule is what tells you someone has been minding the place. That is the whole of the work — a green yard that holds its shape, week after week, for as long as the season runs.