The Morris Canal came through this valley once, and its line still shows in the low wet ground and the long soft curve of the old towpath. September light lies across all of that at a slant, the air finally dry, the grass growing steadily again after August. J&J Garcia Exterior Cleaning spends those weeks mowing Stanhope yards, running trim lines around posts and plantings, and cutting the edges where lawn meets stone and asphalt. Then comes the part that makes it look finished: the blowers, the walks swept clean, nothing left scattered where somebody has to step over it. A yard handled that way holds its shape for the whole week, and the neighbors notice without quite knowing why.