Falconer keeps a tight grid along the Chadakoin, brick storefronts and old shop buildings with street maples throwing shade clear across the sidewalk. The yards behind those porches are modest rectangles, and they ask for mowing that respects a straight line. Rain comes up the valley from Chautauqua Lake and the grass answers in thick, slow growth all through July, so the cut stays on schedule and the trimming follows the walk and the foundation. March means raking winter out of the corners; October means the leaves come down in one bright week and get cleared before the first freeze. What stays with the work is a lawn that reads as tended from the street, stripes true and the edge holding clean.