Fog lies on the South Branch at Three Bridges most summer mornings until the sun clears the treeline, and by then the mowers are already out. Burke Lawn Services runs the Readington week on that early schedule: cutting, trimming the fence rows, edging beds and walkways, and clearing the cuttings off pavement. In April a cleanup strips the winter out of the shrub line; in November the leaves come off the lawn before frost can weld them down. Aeration and overseeding fill the shoulder seasons, when Hunterdon soil is soft and cool. A cut lawn beside an old farm road is a quiet kind of order, and it holds.