Lake Hopatcong keeps the morning fog until the sun clears the ridge, and the lawns that run down toward the water come out of it soaked and shining. Bella Landscape Services LLC works those shorelines and the streets above them — mowing, trimming, edging, mulch in the beds, shrubs kept back off the paths. Highlands ground is stone-shallow and steep in places, so a lawn here grows in pockets and terraces rather than broad sweeps. In spring the flattened leaf mat gets cleared away; in November the oaks send their whole load down at once and it has to be taken off twice over. On a June morning in Jefferson, a finished yard by the lake is a good thing to stand and look at.