Mountainside rides the first Watchung ridge, high enough that morning light arrives a few minutes early and the old oaks keep half the yards in shade until noon. Mountainside Lawncare LLC cuts and tends those lawns — the sloped front yards, the strips of turf that run thin under the canopy, the deep back lots that shoulder up against the Reservation. Grass grows differently on a ridge than it does on the flats below Route 22, slower in the shade, faster where the sun breaks through, and the mowing pattern follows that. Come October the leaf fall off the hillside woods is genuinely serious, and clearing it before the first hard frost is its own kind of satisfaction. What stays behind is a yard that looks looked-after: even height, clean lines at the beds, nothing left on the drive.