South of town the Chemung takes its slow turn toward the Susquehanna, and the flats that river built are where most of Elmira's lawns actually live. Sevens landscaping keeps them: weekly mowing, trimming and edging, spring cleanups that pull winter's mat off the grass, fall ones that stay ahead of the leaves. River-bottom ground grows hard and fast in a wet year, and it wants a steady hand rather than a heroic one. Same day, same route, week after week — that rhythm is what a good lawn is actually made of. Show up seven days running and you would still find something worth tidying.