Collins sits where Erie County's farm country starts folding itself into ravines, and Route 62 carries the light of a long June evening straight down the middle of it. Empire Outdoor Services works in that light — mowing, trimming and edging until a yard reads as one clean sheet against the hayfields behind it. The last pass of the day is the good one, when the lines come up parallel and the mower finally falls quiet. Spring and fall cleanups keep the beds honest between the growing and the letting go. It is lawn care for the houses along these back roads, and for the people who look out at them every morning.