Evening in Painted Post has a particular smell in July: cut grass, warm asphalt, and the river somewhere just out of sight. First Choice Lawn Care is what makes that smell — mowing yard after yard through the long light, trimming close around posts and steps, blowing the clippings off the walks before pulling away. Steuben County lawns can go from lush to scorched in two hard weeks of heat, so the cut height answers to the weather rather than the calendar. Spring brings raking, bed edging and mulch; autumn brings leaves, endless leaves, off the maples that line these streets. A lawn kept simple and kept sharp is its own kind of welcome home.