Summer starts over water in Howell Township, with mist lying on the Manasquan Reservoir until the sun lifts it clear of the treeline. Kingdom Landscaping LLC is already mowing by then, while the grass is cool and the blade leaves a clean cut instead of a tear. Howell is a wide township — pine-shaded half-acres in one corner, open backyards the next road over — and each lawn asks for its own pass. The pleasure is in the finish: stripes running true to the fence line, the trimmer taking the last shaggy inch at the mailbox post, an edge along the walk that reads sharp all the way from the curb. Cleanups bookend it, oak leaves hauled off in November and the winter's scatter raked out in March, so the yard begins each season with nothing in its way.