Jefferson is lake country and rock country at once — Hopatcong's shoreline on one side, the ridges of Mahlon Dickerson holding the last snow on the other, and houses tucked into the oaks wherever the ground allowed it. Lawns are hard-won here: shade, slope, thin soil over ledge, and a canopy that drops something onto the grass in every month of the year. Nature Tree Service keeps those yards mowed, trimmed and edged, with the seasonal cleanups a wooded property genuinely needs rather than merely likes. Late September, when the light comes low across the water and the first leaves start letting go, is when a year of care shows itself. A clean lawn under big trees looks like the woods agreed to it.