The hills come down gently into Elmira, and the last hour of a September afternoon lays gold across every lawn between them. That is the light ABC Enterprises Home & Yard Improvements works in — mowing, trimming and edging until a yard reads clean all the way from the sidewalk. When the year turns cold the same trucks turn to plowing, opening driveways and clearing walks so a Chemung County morning starts without a fight. There is real satisfaction in a straight edge along a curb, and in a lot scraped down to blacktop while the streetlights are still burning. Homes and businesses here get both halves of the calendar looked after.