Ellery Center is a crossroads with a church, a few barns, and hayfields running off in every direction toward the lake. Powell's Plowing and Lawn Care mows this stretch of Chautauqua County from the first warm week in May until the ground gives up in October, keeping to regular cutting, string trimming, edging, and overseeding wherever the turf has thinned. Up here away from the shore the ground dries slower and the season opens a week later than it does down by the water, which nobody much minds. A farmyard lawn looks its best when the line between mown grass and standing hay is drawn sharp, and that edge is the whole job in one glance. Week by week the properties around the Center hold that shape all summer.