Mornings in Andes begin under a lid of fog that slides off the Pepacton and burns away by nine, leaving the hills soaked and steaming. Back Country Landscaping LLC. mows the ground most machines argue with — pasture-edge yards on a pitch, dooryards cut into the hillside above the Tremper Kill, lawns that simply end where the woods start. The work is mowing, trimming and edging, mulching beds, and clearing a yard out each spring and again when the hardwoods let go in October. Up here a kept lawn is a small clearing held open on purpose, and holding it takes coming back week after week. From the road below, those bright green shelves on the hillsides are the whole point.