Franklin sits in a fold of the Highlands, and half its yards run uphill. Defrance Property Solutions mows those slopes toward Hardyston in the long evening light, when the shadows come down off the ridge and the grass goes blue-green. Mowing, trimming, edging, overseeding the thin spots, and the cleanups that strip a hillside of leaves before the wet weight of November settles in. A pitched lawn cut evenly is harder than a flat one and looks twice as good, because the stripes bend with the land instead of fighting it. There is real pride in walking off a property at dusk with the grass laid down even and the walks blown bare.