Fog sits on the Oradell Reservoir most mornings in early fall and drifts west over Emerson's eastern streets before the sun takes it. Magaletta Design Environment starts the day in that gray, mowers coming off the trailer while the grass is still heavy with it. Lawn care here is patient work: cutting at the right height, keeping borders sharp where turf meets bed, laying mulch in spring, gathering leaves once the reservoir shore goes bare. Emerson's lots are modest and its trees are old, which makes the shady half of a yard a puzzle worth solving. Solve it and the lawn stays even from the front hedge to the back fence.