Late August in Mountainville: hay cut in the fields along Route 32, the air gone thick, and every lawn in the hamlet wanting attention at once. Villeda Landscaping keeps that week from getting away from anybody — mowing, string trimming, edging, and yard waste hauled off before the trailer gate goes up. It is hand-work as much as machine-work: fence lines by hand, around the mailbox post, the strip nobody else bothers with. Late-summer grass takes a cut hard, so the height comes up and the color stays. Truck loaded, street swept, on to the next one.