September light over the old horse-farm fields near Thompson Park is the best of the Monmouth year — low, gold, and easy on grass that has come through a hard summer. Trees Landscaping LLC works Lincroft through that turn, mowing, edging and trimming right up to the point where the cleanups take over. Wide lawns are their own kind of test: the stripes have to stay true the whole way across, with nothing scalped at the crown. Spring opens the same way, with everything winter left behind cleared off before the first cut. A big open yard, freshly mowed and holding the evening sun, needs no explaining.