Mist comes off Lovell Lake early in Wakefield and hangs in the yards until the sun gets up over the trees. Mike McKenna Septic works the lawn care here — mowing, trimming, edging, and the cleanups that bracket the season at either end. The cut runs even from the road edge down to where the grass gives out at the shoreline, with the clippings blown off the walk before the truck moves on. There is a plain satisfaction in a yard that looks tended from out on the water, and that is the standard the work aims for. Wakefield lawns are sandy and stubborn; they answer to attention more than anything else.