The Northway hums about a mile off, and from the Ballston side you can watch the headlights run north toward Saratoga before the sky has any color in it at all. Northway Lawn Care LLC is usually up by then. Mowing, trimming, edging, mulching, spring and fall cleanups across Ballston and the towns strung along that corridor. There's a narrow window each morning — after the dew burns off and before the heat lands — when grass cuts cleanest, and the whole day gets built around catching it. Traffic goes by at seventy miles an hour; the lawns stay right where they are, sharp at every edge.