Out toward the Clove Valley the land in Beekman rolls hard — hayfields tipping down to wet bottoms, hedgerows running up the ridges, and lawns that have to be mowed sideways to look right. Don's Landscaping reads those slopes for a living, cutting to the contour so the stripes follow the land instead of fighting it. Midsummer means steady mowing, trimming around the stone and the sugar maples, mulch laid in the beds, hedges brought back from their June sprawl. Afternoon thunder builds over the hills most weeks and everyone works ahead of it. When the grass dries and the light comes back, a mowed field-edge property out here is a genuinely handsome thing.