August settles heavy over Neshanic Station, the Sourland ridge to the south holding the heat, and by the middle of the month lawns start to go pale from the top down. Cavagnaro Landscaping & Irrigation works both halves of that problem — the mowing and trimming that keep a yard in shape, and the sprinkler lines that keep it green when the sky refuses to help. Watering out here has to be tuned to the ground itself, heavy in the bottoms, quick-draining on the rises, and a system set right makes the difference between surviving a dry August and looking good through it. There is a plain pleasure in an evening cut on a lawn that came back, the stripes crossing an even, deep green. Then autumn arrives, the lines get blown out, and the whole cycle waits for spring.